ˈmizen-ˈtop Naut.
The ‘top’ of a mizen-mast; a platform just above the head of the lower mizen-mast.
| 1667 Lond. Gaz. No. 178/4 She wears upon her Main-top an English Ancient..and a French upon his Mizen-top. 1806 Med. Jrnl. XV. 73 Lord Nelson was mortally wounded..by a musquet-ball,..fired from the mizen-top of La Redoubtable. 1833 Marryat P. Simple xiv, I was put into the mizen-top. |
b. attrib., as mizen-top-boy, mizen-top-man, mizen-top-shrouds.
| 1626 Capt. Smith Accid. Yng. Seamen 14 The mison top shroudes and their ratlings. 1833 Marryat P. Simple xiii, Having recourse to one of his remedies to cure a mizen-top-boy of smoking. a 1860 H. Stuart Seaman's Catech. 79 The duties of mizentop-men aloft are much the same as the other topmen... The youngest and slightest hands in the ship are usually selected for mizen-top-men. |