We don't have to wait for the slack season to have that there compass adjusted an' paint the topsides o' the Maggie," he reminded Scraggs.
The rear horse-transports have come up astern and seem to have got over the steering difficulties that their high topsides and small rudder-immersion effected in the heavier sea.
Her topsides grew rusty, her once trim and clean paintwork took on a grimy tint.
The cross-lines being still on the upper layer, draw square lines from them down the topsidesand from the drawing mark the points through which the sheer-line runs.
And while they were being looked after, the Johnnie was overhauled, her bottom scrubbed and topsides painted.
We could reach this spar by climbing down the cliff, and with a reserve supply of fuel thus in sight we could afford to burn the fragments of the 'James Caird's' topsides more freely.
We cut off the topsides and took out all the movable gear.
I fear that the carpenter's fingers were already itching to convert pews into topsidesand decks.
I gave orders that accumulations of snow, ice, and rubbish alongside the 'Endurance' should be shovelled away, so that in case of pressure there would be no weight against the topsides to check the ship rising above the ice.
I didn't look to see what damage the shell did in passing, but it went clear through our pine topsides one side and out the other.
First, we built up her topsides to make a superstructure, and then added the other things a first-class battle-ship ought to have.
We painted her lower sides white and her topsides yellow-brown, and for turrets we had one to each end with what was intended for 12-inch gun muzzles sticking out of them.
The under-water shape of her is different, her topsides have scarcely any tumble-home, and she has not nearly so much sheer as usual.
In the West, a flat bottom with flaring topsides predominated; fast canoes there had a very narrow, flat bottom with some flare, the width of the bottom and the amount of flare being increased to give greater capacity on a shallow draft.
In the smaller canoes of this class, the flare of the topsides was often less than in the larger craft.
Many tribes used edge-to-edge joining everywhere in the topsides so that the direction of lapping was not a matter of consideration.
In the topsides the ribs were tapered to about 2 inches in width; when the bottom and outboard corner of the main gunwales were not beveled, the rib ends were cut square across on the wide face and chisel-shaped.
The hull-forms of the Micmac canoes were marked in the topsides by a strong tumble-home, carried the full length of the hull, that gave these canoes more beam below than at the gunwale.
The midsection was somewhat dish-shaped, but with well-rounded bilges, so that the flare of the topsides was rounded and not very apparent to the casual observer.
Later, when the required shape can be determined, these slashes will be made into gores, the Malecite canoes having flush seams, not overlaps, in the topsides and bottom.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "topsides" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: clerestory; roof; rooftop; surface; topside
