tophamper

"Yes, my man, I see, and I notice, also, she has sent down her topgallants and taken in another reef," returned Mr Jellaby, proceeding to work his way back amidships to those we had left there, wading through the water and wreckage and tophamper strewing the waist.

Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant John B. [Illustrator] Greene

From this point of vantage, it flew out fair above all our sails and tophamper, visible all round the compass and telling the French corvette, still curvetting and prancing abreast of us and showing her bright copper sheathing as she rolled, that we had at last made out her signal and were waiting to learn what she had to say.

Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant John B. [Illustrator] Greene

The port had seen nothing like her for power and speed; her skysail yards soared far above the other shipping; the cut of her snowy canvas was faultless; all clumsy, needless tophamper had been done away with; and she appeared to be the last word in design and construction, as lean and fine and spirited as a race-horse in training.

The Old Merchant Marine; A chronicle of American ships and sailors Ralph Delahaye Paine 1898

_Dolphin_, therefore, despite her beautiful model and the reduction of her tophamper, was beginning to make exceedingly bad weather of it, frequently burying herself to her foremast, and careening so heavily that during some of her lee rolls it was impossible to maintain one's footing on deck except by holding on to something.

A Middy of the Slave Squadron A West African Story Harry Collingwood 1886

"Ay," observed another, "and she's got little hold o 'the water, good ground-tackle, and no tophamper; she'll weather anything, sir."

The Lighthouse 1859

There was also the continuous scourging of the spray, which stung like the lash of a million whips; and finally, there was the oppression of a very real anxiety, for, as I think I have mentioned, the yacht was as heavily rigged as a frigate, and notwithstanding the relief afforded by sending down her tophamper, she lay down so alarmingly that at length I began seriously to question whether it would not eventually end in her turning turtle.

The First Mate The Story of a Strange Cruise Harry Collingwood 1886

_She_ was full - rigged, I told you, sir, and though her canvas was torn and she looked a bit knocked about in the matter of her tophamper, she was as unlike our old _Star of the North_ as a sailing vessel is unlike a steamer! "

The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea Henry [Illustrator] Austin

But you let some one try to plunk acrost my bows when I'm on the starboard tack, and have got right of way, well, more or less tophamper is goin 'to be carried away -- and it won't be mine. "

The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul Holman Day 1900