But the men had scarcely got the fore and maintop sails set, when the storm came on again with a fury far exceeding any thing we had yet encountered, and they were again sent aloft to furl the sails.
Instead thereof, we have been battling with another heavy gale, and driving before it under the foresail, foretop sail, and maintop sail, all close reefed.
Larkyns at the maintop was a good second, while Adams at the mizzen was the last; the officer of the watch, on hearing his hail, reporting "All ready!
Go up to the maintop and see what's the matter with it at once.
Mr Cleete, the carpenter, then went up into the maintop to see what had happened to cause the loud crack we had heard.
After a chase of five hours the nearest frigate fired her foremost guns at us, which cut away the maintop bowline.
He was captain of the maintop on board the ship Saratoga, at the battle on lake Champlain, and nailed the colors to the mast after they had been shot away by the British.
A ball of fire burst about 40 yards above the British ship Montague, admiral Chambers, knocking down five men, shattering the maintop mast, and otherwise injuring the ship.
The next morning the 'Revenge' was seen clearing for action, with a number of armed men in her maintop to repel any attempt to touch the pendant.
The seamen poised incredulously in the maintop and foretop cheered as they began to haul in the ropes securing the yards, and in moments the sails swiveled off the wind.
Today he also wore a bloodstained binding around his thigh, where a musket shot from a Portuguese maintop had furrowed the skin.
Just before dark, the look-out in the maintop reported something ahead, which presently turned out to be an enormous iceberg, fortunately far away to leeward out of the course of the ship.
Running down the poop ladder, the captain soon started up the shrouds on the port side towards the maintop where the lookout man was stationed.
They specify in advance what portion goes to every man, from the maintop to the keel .
Moments later a mate in the maintop began to unfurl tops'ls, and after that the mainsail dropped in preparation to make for open sea.
The ship had all but passed them by before garbled shouts from its maintop finally sounded over the foggy waters.
Jarvis and the men in the maintophad little time to use their muskets.
One of them in his maintop with great deliberateness laid aside his musket and picked up a leather bucket of hand grenades.
Jarvis, from his post aloft, could plainly see the lines of heads along the poop, and fancied that he could make out a midshipman almost as young as he, who was clambering about the maintop of the other vessel.
If the sinewy arms of the captain of the maintop and one of the top men had not caught me as I passed, I should have fallen into the sea or on the deck, and either alternative would have been disagreeable.
It was a frightfully difficult job to take in the maintop sail--a very heavy hempen one--which I had kept out as long as possible, and which had to be furled just when the storm was at its worst.
The violence of the wind laid the ship so completely over on her beam ends that Lieutenant Mazeres, who was carried overboard by a wave, caught hold of the maintop and managed to get back on deck.
All their exertions were fruitless; for just as the captain of the maintop seized him by the tail, at the starboard royal yard-arm, he was cramming the last batch of calomel down his throat!
The look-out man at the maintop mast-head of the frigate was instantly called down by the captain, and severely punished on the spot, for not having discovered and reported the stranger before the flag ship had made the signal to chase.
During the action he was in the maintop piloting the ships into the bay.
Two lanterns were raised into the maintop shrouds of the "Sutherland.
The wind fell; but the fogs continued at intervals; till, on the afternoon of the seventh of June, the weather having cleared, the watchman on the maintop saw the distant ocean studded with ships.
The captain of the maintop reports the breast backstay much chafed in the serving.
Maintop there, send down the hauling line on the starboard side.
In a twinkling, the flames had risen Halfway to maintop and mizzen, Darting up the shrouds like snakes!
The round, grape, and star-shot so well did play, A musket-ball from the maintopbrave Champlin low did lay.
Finding her sound and whole, Perry backed his maintop sail, and flung out his signal for close action.
When the Constitution had run down to within three miles of him, the Englishman laid his maintop sail aback, and hung out three flags, to show his willingness to engage.
It occurred to me that if those fellows insist on closing with us, it would be a good plan to have a hand up in the maintop with some portfires; it would enable us to see what we are doing.
I therefore shouted to Kennedy a suggestion that he should order the man in the maintop to light his portfires, so that we might have light to see what we were about.
While the brigade's guns were in action, one of them exploding, killed Francis Cassidey, captain of the maintop and severely wounded several other men.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "maintop" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
