Topping lift (Naut.), a large, strong tackle employed to raise or top
the end of a gaff, or of a boom.
Top"ping*ly, adv. In a topping or proud manner.
Top"ping*ly, a. Same as Topping, a., 3. [Obs.] "Topping quests."
Tusser.
Top"ple (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Toppled (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Toppling.] [From Top summit.] To fall forward; to pitch or tumble down.
Though castles topple on their warders' heads.
Shak.
Top"ple, v. t. To throw down; to overturn.
He topple crags from the precipice.
Longfellow.
Top"-proud` (?), a. Proud to the highest degree. [R.] "This top-proud
fellow." Shak.
Top"-rope` (?), n. (Naut.) A rope used for hoisting and lowering a
topmast, and for other purposes.
Top"sail` (?), n. (Naut.) In a square-rigged vessel, the sail next
above the lowermost sail on a mast. This sail is the one most
frequently reefed or furled in working the ship. In a fore-and-aft
rigged vessel, the sail set upon and above the gaff. See Cutter,
Schooner, Sail, and Ship.
Topsail schooner. (Naut.) See Schooner, and Illustration in Appendix.
Tops"-and-bot`toms (?), n. pl. Small rolls of dough, baked, cut in
halves, and then browned in an oven, — used as food for infants.
'T is said that her top-and-bottoms were gilt.
Hood.
Top"-shaped` (?), a. Having the shape of a top; (Bot.) cone-shaped,
with the apex downward; turbinate.
Top"-shell` (?), n. (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of marine
top-shaped shells of the genus Trochus, or family Trochidæ.
Tops"man (?), n.; pl. Topsmen (&?;). 1. The chief drover of those who
drive a herd of cattle. P. Cyc.