Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Nautical, a platform at the masthead; a top.
- noun In heraldry, an inclosed circular platform, like a large flat tub, set upon the top of a pole, which pole is shown to be a mast by having a small yard with furled sail attached put across it, usually at an angle—the whole being a conventional representation of an ancient round top of a ship.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Naut.) A top; a platform at a masthead; -- so called because formerly round in shape.
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- noun Alternative form of
round-top .
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- noun a canvas tent to house the audience at a circus performance
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Examples
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From the roundtop-mast of an English ship, just brought in as a prize, he one day witnessed the steaming in of Robert Fulton's steamboat.
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Had some crazed sailor escaped, and was he gibbering from the roundtop?
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