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- noun nautical A sailor on duty on a
maintop .
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Examples
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Hornblower was no maintopman, and Hornblower knew it.
Mr. Midshipman Easy Marryat, Frederick, 1792-1848 1873
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But now the tailor has found out the articles ar'n't seaworthy, and we have got your lower stanchions cased in a pair of purser's slops, I am puzzled often to tell your heels from those of a maintopman! "
The Pilot James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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"Well, as I was telling your Honour," he continued, "Guinea was then a maintopman, and I was stationed in the same place aboard the 'Proserpine,'
The Red Rover James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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