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The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea | 2006 | 283 words | Copyright

topmen, or yardmen, seamen whose station in the watch-bill, in the days of square-riggers, was on the masts and yards. They were the picked men of a ship's company, with the upper yardmen, those who worked on the topsail and topgallant sail yards, the aristocrats of the lower deck.

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