A platform around the head of the lower section of a sailing ship's mainmast.
（帆船的）主桅楼，主桅上平台
Example sentencesExamples
It was a horrible lesson too to them, because it was afterwards found that he had taken up a bottle of whisky to drink at the maintop.
On 12 April 1606, a royal decree declared that the ships of the Kingdom of Great Britain " shall bear on their maintops the red cross, commonly called St. George's cross, and the white cross, commonly called St. Andrew's cross.’
There are many of places of the coast where fishermen could find the place where nets were cast, creels or maintops were lowered.
Definition of maintop in US English:
maintop
nounˈmāntäpˈmeɪntɑp
A platform around the head of the lower section of a sailing ship's mainmast.
（帆船的）主桅楼，主桅上平台
Example sentencesExamples
There are many of places of the coast where fishermen could find the place where nets were cast, creels or maintops were lowered.
On 12 April 1606, a royal decree declared that the ships of the Kingdom of Great Britain " shall bear on their maintops the red cross, commonly called St. George's cross, and the white cross, commonly called St. Andrew's cross.’
It was a horrible lesson too to them, because it was afterwards found that he had taken up a bottle of whisky to drink at the maintop.