Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A member of a crew who is always in the lead when work is going on either on deck or aloft.
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Well; she has married a topsawyer -- I believe the ablest of them all, and probably the most unprincipled; though I ought not to say that to you.
Endymion Benjamin Disraeli 1842
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