Associations to the word «Topmast»

Wiktionary

TOPMAST, noun. (nautical) The highest mast in a fore-and-aft-rigged ship.
TOPMAST, noun. (nautical) The mast below the topgallant mast in a square-rigged ship.

Dictionary definition

TOPMAST, noun. The mast next above a lower mast and topmost in a fore-and-aft rig.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope