Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Top-cloth

Top-cloth , noun

(Nautical) A piece of canvas used to cover the hammocks which are lashed to the top in action to protect the topmen.

Text from the public-domain GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English, derived from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913). Definitions marked with were added by later GCIDE contributors and are not in the original 1913 edition.

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