Word: topmast
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...books have a music of their own, though occasionally compressed into passages that are a trial by vocabulary for shore-hugging readers ("and then these futtock-plates at the rim here hold the dead-eyes for the topmast shrouds"). The books are action-adventures, true, but also peerless novels of 19th century manners, detailing the mores of Regency England while instructing in the finer points of how to cannonade a French corsair or master seas that can body slam mere frigates into splinters...