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The stones may be three feet wide at the bottom and ten feet at the top, and you see the wall extends over here in the same way--as of course it must have done, otherwise the whole thing would have overbalanced and fallen in before that slab at the top was added.

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  1. noun The uppermost part, point, surface, or end.
  2. noun The part farthest from a given reference point: took a jump shot from the top of the key.
  3. noun The crown of the head: from top to toe.
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  • On the top is the little chapel of Notre Dame de l’Espérance, upon which was formerly a telegraph, and near it is a column surmounted by a colossal statue of Our Lady. —  Brittany ; Its Byways
  • On the top is a cross. —  Brittany ; Its Byways
  • On the top is a figure of the Virgin with her arms extended The women of Guingamp wear high muslin caps, dark petticoats, and black stockings. —  Brittany ; Its Byways
  • Round the "autel des anges," richest of them all, is a row of eighteen niches, filled in with the figures of angels, holding alternately phylacteries and escutcheons; round the top is a cornice of thistle-leaves—on the cut stalk of one hangs a dew-drop perfect to nature The high altar is decorated with vine-leaves, birds pecking the grapes, and the ermine, with its motto "À ma vie," introduced. —  Brittany ; Its Byways
  • On the top is the aoul, which is divided into old and new Akhulgo, being together a circumference of something less than a couple of wersts. —  Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia
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bottom ·  side ·  front ·  surface ·  base ·  several ·  foot ·  roof ·  half ·  line ·  size ·  grind

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  1. Middle English, from Old English.

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  1. Early modern English also toppe; Scots tap; from ME, top, toppe, from Anglo-Saxon top, a tuft or ball at the point or top of anything, =OFries. top =D. top, end, point, summit, =Middle Low German top, Low German topp =Old High German Middle High German zopf, end, point, tuft of hair, pigtail, top of a tree, German zopf, top, =Icelandic toppr, tuft, lock of hair, crest, top, =Swedish topp, a summit; =Danish top, tuft, crest, top; apparently orig. ‘a projecting end or point’ (cf. tap). Hence, from Teutonic, Old French tope, dim, toupet, French toupet, tuft of hair, crest, top, knob, =Spanish tope =Italian toppo, end. Cf. tip.
  2. from top, n. Cf. top, v.
  3. Middle English toppe; short for on top of.
  4. So. also tope; from Middle English toppen, literally ‘catch by the top’; from top, n.: see top.
  5. from top, v.
  6. Early modern English also toppe; from Middle English top, prob. from Middle Dutch top, toppe, variant (due to confusion with top, point, summit) of dop, doppe, a top (cf. Middle Dutch dol, variant of tol, Dutch tol a top), =Old High German topf tof topfo, Middle High German topf, toppe, top. wheel, G. (dial.) topf =Danish top, a top, spinning-top; perhaps so called from a fancied resemblance to a pot, from Middle High German topf, tupfen, German topf (obsolete), töpfen, pot; cf G. (dial.) dipfi, dupfi, dippen, an iron kettle with three legs, prob. connected with Anglo-Saxon deóp, German tief, etc., deep: see deep. The notion that the top is so called “because it is sharpened to a tip or top on which it is spun,” or “from whirling round on its top or point,” is inconsistent with the G. forms (German topf, a top (toy), German zopf, a tuft, crest); moreover, a top does not spin on its top.
 

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