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Top-hamper   Listen
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Top-hamper  n.  (Written also top hamper)  (Naut.) The upper rigging, spars, etc., of a ship. "All the ships of the fleet... were so encumbered with tophamper, so overweighted in proportion to their draught of water, that they could bear but little canvas, even with smooth seas and light and favorable winds."






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"Top-hamper" Quotes from Famous Books



... were handed. Next came the squaring of the yards, though this was imperfectly done, and a good deal by guess-work. The men came down, and there lay a noble fleet at anchor, with nothing visible to those on the cliffs, but their top-hamper and upper spars. ...
— The Two Admirals • J. Fenimore Cooper



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