round top noun
- a platform round the masthead of a sailing ship
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I’d be lost in a place like that—me in a sack suit and round-top dicer!
Sewell Ford
There are nine stamens, with threadlike filaments, often hairy, and a three-parted style with round-top stigmas.
Field Book of Western Wild Flowers
Margaret Armstrong
Aids were coming and going; a signal-officer in the yard was waving his flags in response to one on Round-top.
Charles Carleton Coffin.
On the 1st of August, 1498, the man stationed at the round-top surprised them with the joyful cry of “Land!”
Peter Parley’s Tales About America and Australia
Samuel Griswold Goodrich
Meanwhile, in the grassy hollow between two round-top hills the bands of Elk and Grayman were gathered in extraordinary council.
The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop
Hamlin Garland