Top(n.)
- A child's toy, commonly in the form of a conoid or pear, made to spin on its point, usually by drawing off a string wound round its surface or stem, the motion being sometimes continued by means of a whip.
Top(n.)
- A plug, or conical block of wood, with longitudital grooves on its surface, in which the strands of the rope slide in the process of twisting.
Top(n.)
- The highest part of anything; the upper end, edge, or extremity; the upper side or surface; summit; apex; vertex; cover; lid; as, the top of a spire; the top of a house; the top of a mountain; the top of the ground.
Top(n.)
- The utmost degree; the acme; the summit.
Top(n.)
- The highest rank; the most honorable position; the utmost attainable place; as, to be at the top of one's class, or at the top of the school.
Top(n.)
- The chief person; the most prominent one.
Top(n.)
- The crown of the head, or the hair upon it; the head.
Top(n.)
- A platform surrounding the head of the lower mast and projecting on all sudes. It serves to spead the topmast rigging, thus strengheningthe mast, and also furnishes a convenient standing place for the men aloft.
Top(n.)
- A bundle or ball of slivers of comkbed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been taken out.