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top(2) (iou)



top noun2.
[Late Old English top, of unkn. origin.]
A wooden, metal, or plastic toy, usu. conical, spherical, or pear-shaped, with a point on which it spins when set in motion by a string, a spring, the hand, etc. LOE.
sleep like a top: see SLEEP verb.
More fully top-shell. (The shell of) a gastropod of the family Trochidae, which comprises marine forms with a short conical shell. L17.
A conical piece of wood with lengthwise grooves in which the strands of a rope run when being twisted. L18.
? Rare before LME.
topwise adverb in the manner of a top LME.