† top-castlen.

Etymology: Compare top n.¹ 9 and castle n. 7.

Obsolete.

a. An embattled platform at the head of a ship's masts, from which missiles were discharged: later called also top (top n.¹ 9).

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > spar > [noun] > mast > platform at top of mast > embattled platform on warship

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merlon1790

military top1887

military foretop1895

fighting-top1896

1335 Accts. Exchequer King's Remembrancer (P.R.O.: E101/19/14) m. 6 In paracione de guerra et arraiamenta cuiusdam magni Navis vocat' la Trinite, vt in Ofcastel, Topcastel et Forcastel... In cordis emptis pro petris tractandis apud Topcastel. xviij d. Rendered, in Nicolas Hist. Royal Navy (1847) II. 170 The ‘Trinity’, of two hundred tons, was prepared for war with an ‘ofcastle, topcastle, and forecastle’; the ‘ofcastle’ being the aftcastle, and the ‘topcastle’ the ‘top’ or stage at the top of the mast; and ropes were bought for pulling stones up to the topcastle.]

13.. Coer de L. 2539 Sterne strokes with harde stones Out off the top-castel on hygh.

a1400 Siege of Troy 695 in Archiv neu. Spr. LXXII. 27 Vche maste hade top castel And asayliþ þe cite harde and wel.

1411 Accts. Exchequer King's Remembrancer 44/17 La barge appelle la Marie de la Toure..ove lapparail..une mast, un trief ove iiij. bonetz, un topchastiell, un seilyerde.

c1450 in C. L. Kingsford Chrons. London (1905) 145 Beryng the standard of Seynt Jorge in the topcastell lyke Englissh schippes.

1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. v. f. 27 The foreshyppe and the sterne, the toppe castel, the maste.

b. transferred and figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > [noun] > state of or advanced condition > highest point

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high-water mark1602

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zenith1610

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heading up1857

climacteric1870

flashpoint1878

tip-end1885

peak1902

noontime1903

Omega point1981

1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke xi. 110 To sytte euen in the high topcastell of true seruyng of God.

1556 in J. G. Nichols Chron. Grey Friars (1852) 84 There was a man made too tope~castelles above the crosse of the stepulle, and there stode with a flagge in hys honde and viij flagges hangynge besyde.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xxi. 252/1 He beareth Vert, the top castle of a Loome, with its pullaces, issueing out of base, Or.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

单词	top-castle
释义	† top-castlen. Etymology: Compare top n.¹ 9 and castle n. 7. Obsolete. a. An embattled platform at the head of a ship's masts, from which missiles were discharged: later called also top (top n.¹ 9). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > spar > [noun] > mast > platform at top of mast > embattled platform on warship top-castle13.. merlon1790 military top1887 military foretop1895 fighting-top1896 1335 Accts. Exchequer King's Remembrancer (P.R.O.: E101/19/14) m. 6 In paracione de guerra et arraiamenta cuiusdam magni Navis vocat' la Trinite, vt in Ofcastel, Topcastel et Forcastel... In cordis emptis pro petris tractandis apud Topcastel. xviij d. Rendered, in Nicolas Hist. Royal Navy (1847) II. 170 The ‘Trinity’, of two hundred tons, was prepared for war with an ‘ofcastle, topcastle, and forecastle’; the ‘ofcastle’ being the aftcastle, and the ‘topcastle’ the ‘top’ or stage at the top of the mast; and ropes were bought for pulling stones up to the topcastle.] 13.. Coer de L. 2539 Sterne strokes with harde stones Out off the top-castel on hygh. a1400 Siege of Troy 695 in Archiv neu. Spr. LXXII. 27 Vche maste hade top castel And asayliþ þe cite harde and wel. 1411 Accts. Exchequer King's Remembrancer 44/17 La barge appelle la Marie de la Toure..ove lapparail..une mast, un trief ove iiij. bonetz, un topchastiell, un seilyerde. c1450 in C. L. Kingsford Chrons. London (1905) 145 Beryng the standard of Seynt Jorge in the topcastell lyke Englissh schippes. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. v. f. 27 The foreshyppe and the sterne, the toppe castel, the maste. b. transferred and figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > [noun] > state of or advanced condition > highest point prickOE heighta1050 full1340 higha1398 pointc1400 roofa1500 top-castle1548 ruff1549 acmea1568 tip1567 noontide1578 high tide1579 superlative1583 summity1588 spring tide1593 meridian1594 period1595 apogee1600 punctilio1601 high-water mark1602 noon1609 zenith1610 auge1611 apex1624 culmination1633 cumble1640 culmen1646 climax1647 topc1650 cumulus1659 summit1661 perigeum1670 highest1688 consummation1698 stretch1741 high point1787 perihelion1804 summary1831 comble1832 heading up1857 climacteric1870 flashpoint1878 tip-end1885 peak1902 noontime1903 Omega point1981 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke xi. 110 To sytte euen in the high topcastell of true seruyng of God. 1556 in J. G. Nichols Chron. Grey Friars (1852) 84 There was a man made too tope~castelles above the crosse of the stepulle, and there stode with a flagge in hys honde and viij flagges hangynge besyde. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xxi. 252/1 He beareth Vert, the top castle of a Loome, with its pullaces, issueing out of base, Or. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.13..
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