Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having too much weight aloft; hence, top-heavy.
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Examples
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The Spaniards bought her from a New York millionaire, but she was an old model then, and they have top-hampered her with armor and guns until they have knocked what little speed she had out of her.
A Voyage with Captain Dynamite Charles Edward Rich
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General Burnside, whose anxiety for the fate of his army was intense, many of the vessels on which the troops were embarked being nothing more than huge top-hampered river steamers, with projecting guards that would smash up like cardboard if fairly struck by a sea.
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She certainly looks singularly top-hampered, -- altogether unlike any British ship that I have ever seen.
A Boy's Voyage Round the World Samuel Smiles 1858
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