Crossword-Solution: MAINTOP
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Maintop | n. | The platform about the head of the mainmast in square-rigged vessels. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| MAINTOP | anagram | PTOMAIN, TAMPION, TIMPANO |
We have 9 clues for the answer “MAINTOP”
| Clue | Answers |
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| High platform on some sailing ships | 1 answer |
| Mainmast platform | 1 answer |
| Mainmast platform ( nautical) | 1 answer |
| Platform at the head of a certain mast. | 1 answer |
| Platform at the head of a mast. | 1 answer |
| Platform on a ship | 1 answer |
| Platform on a square-rigged vessel | 1 answer |
| Circus tent | 3 answers |
| Nautical platform | 3 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AEERT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with MAINTOP (5)
The captain in the meanwhile crowded her with sail; fifteen sails in all, every stay being gratified with a stay-sail, a boat-boom sent aloft for a maintop-gallant yard, and the derrick of a crane brought in service as bowsprit.
SIR BLENNERHASSET does away, With selvagees from maintop-stay; And though it makes his sailors stare, He rigs breast backstays everywhere— In fact, too many.
The maintop was already only ten feet above water, while the bowsprit, with the exception of the extreme end, that rose obliquely from the waves, was entirely covered.
Farragut stood in the port main-rigging, and as the smoke increased he gradually climbed higher, until he was close by the maintop, where the pilot was stationed for the sake of clearer vision.
The monitor was about five hundred yards from the Hartford, and from the maintop Farragut, looking at her, saw her reel violently from side to side, lurch heavily over, and go down headforemost, her screw revolving wildly in the air as she disappeared.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1952–2015).