Definitions for maintop

maintop main·top

Spelling: [meyn-top]
IPA: /ˈmeɪnˌtɒp/

Maintop is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 232 anagrams from letters in maintop (aimnopt).

Definitions for maintop

noun

  1. a platform at the head of the lower mainmast.

Origin of maintop

First recorded in 1475-85; main1 + top1

Examples for maintop

I heard a deep groan near me as I was seated in the maintop.

Jarvis and the men in the maintop had little time to use their muskets.

I did as directed, the hands who had been aloft meeting me in the maintop on their way down.

He fell back as a streak of red ran slowly between the planking of the maintop and trickled down the mast to the deck.

"You'll be in the maintop next, I don't doubt," said her father, laughing.

maintop there, send down the hauling line on the starboard side.

Her husband was captain of the maintop, and as gallant and fine a seaman as ever stepped.

Two lanterns were raised into the maintop shrouds of the "Sutherland."

I was with one of the oldsters in the maintop; the maintop-sail had just been close-reefed.

They beat the mate unmercifully, and hung him up by the neck under the maintop.

Word Value for maintop
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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