A platform surrounding the head of the lower mast and
projecting on all sudes. It serves to spead the topmast rigging, thus
strengheningthe mast, and also furnishes a convenient standing place
for the men aloft.

A bundle or ball of slivers of comkbed wool, from which the
noils, or dust, have been taken out.

The utmost degree; the acme; the summit.

The head, or upper part, of a plant.

The highest rank; the most honorable position; the utmost
attainable place; as, to be at the top of one’s class, or at the top of
the school.

The highest part of anything; the upper end, edge, or
extremity; the upper side or surface; summit; apex; vertex; cover; lid;
as, the top of a spire; the top of a house; the top of a mountain; the
top of the ground.

A child’s toy, commonly in the form of a conoid or pear, made
to spin on its point, usually by drawing off a string wound round its
surface or stem, the motion being sometimes continued by means of a
whip.

i., s. tepe, zirve, en yüksek mertebe, üst kısım, en üst, en fazla. I live on the top floor. (En üst katta oturuyorum.)

A plug, or conical block of wood, with longitudital grooves on
its surface, in which the strands of the rope slide in the process of
twisting.

The crown of the head, or the hair upon it; the head.