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topman
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What does topman mean?
noun
- The man stationed in the top on a sailing vessel, responsible for the setting of the sails
- The uppermost sawyer in a sawpit; a topsman.
- A top, dom.
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There's not a smarter topman in the Navy, your honour, though I say it who shouldn't.
In a twinkling he was on the yard; he paused for a few seconds and appeared to be measuring it with his eye; these seconds, during which the breeze swayed the topman at the extremity of a thread, seemed centuries to those who were looking on.