Crossword clues for topside
topside
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
a. (context nautical English) above decks, such as on the weather deck or bridge. n. 1 The side or part of something that is at the top. 2 (context nautical English) The surface of a ship’s hull that is above the water line. 3 (context construction English) The structure and assembly of modules above the jacket or gravity base sub structure. 4 (context construction English) The structure and assembly of modules on the deck of any floating installation. 5 (context UK Australia New Zealand English) The outer side of a round of beef.
WordNet
n. (usually plural) weather deck; the part of a ship's hull that is above the waterline
Wikipedia
Topside may refer to:
- One of many British cuts of beef, part of the Round steak in American terminology
- Topside direction, in the list of ship directions
- A fictional organization in the BBC Canada Television show Orphan Black
Topside is a historic summer estate in Brooksville, Maine. Designed by Tennessee architect William Crutchfield and built in 1918, this unusual log structure more closely resembles vacation houses found in the mountain areas of the southern United States than it those found in Maine. It is located on the north shore of Walker Pond, off Maine State Route 176. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
Usage examples of "topside".
Every manjack, except those already posted for watch, hurried topside.
Its spires jutted from the topside, and its entire circumference was surrounded with propulsory tentacles.
He worked belowdecks, trimming out the cabin until the heat sent him topside desperate for fluids and one stingy breeze.
Nuit had a lot of strange shit going on topside, and his bites had demon hybrid all in them.
At 0230, 5 June, he directed Captain Kaku to summon all hands topside.
There were a number of identifiable air locks, one on each side up near the bow, one topside, one on the portside about two thirds of the way back, and one in the belly in the aft third.
Only Kirk had caught anything big enough to keep--two plump raylike fish with three eyes topside and two mouths on the bottom--and he intended to eat them both.
At 0345 sleepy sailors, clutching mugs of the hot caffeine syrup left over from the coffee brewed for the previous watch, appeared at their duty stations topside and below, listened to quick reports of the situation, took over headsets or throttles, or a wheel or a radar scope, or a pair of binoculars, or the sights of a five-incher or a forty-millimeter, and settled in to await the dawn.
Leia began firing the topside lasers as fast as they could charge, and the skips sent streams of plasma at the Falcon.
Black hull, high topsides, her two big lug sails making her look almost overcanvased.
He ran unopposed through the gladiators, hopped nimbly onto the skirts of the Essay and hoisted himself topside.
Moments later, the four leading Basilisks swiveled their topside turrets to vertical and fired the twenty-disruptor salutes due a Rear Admiral.
If perhaps those boneyards, however many there might be, had all gone topside, to prowl around the school in anticipation of nightfall, we would have an easy sprint to the basement of the new abbey.
He left the shower room at a run, headed down the corridor to the lift, rode it up to topside, raced out again, down the hall, around the corner into the living quarters, through it to the bridgeward corridor.
Many of them occupy the same ecological niche underground that chlorophyllous plants do topside.