Mizzentopman

Quick meaning: Mizzentopman is a noun meaning A sailor assigned to the mizzentop on a sailing ship.

Meaning

A sailor assigned to the mizzentop on a sailing ship.

Example Sentences

Soon after, the foresail was reefed, and we mizen-top men were sent up to take another reef in the mizen topsail.

This illustration for Herman Melville's White Jacket (1850) of the flogging of a nineteen-year-old mizzen-top man […] on a U.S. naval ship—based on Melville's own Pacific voyage of 1843-44—helped stoke a humanitarian campaign against such physical punishment.

[…] since the mizzentopmen having not to handle such breadths of heavy canvas as the lower sails on the main-mast and fore-mast, a young man if of the right stuff not only seems best adapted to duty there, but in fact is generally selected for the captaincy of that top, and the company under him are light hands and often but striplings.

Word Forms

• mizzentopmen

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include mizzentop, mizzen-top, mizen top, mizzentopmast, mizzensail, maintopman.

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