noun.
Specifically, in tobacco-growing, the removal of the budded or blossoming summit of the plant in order that its strength may be thrown into the leaves.
Rising above all others; loftiest; overtopping.
Surpassing; towering; preƫminent; distinguished.
Lofty; pretentious; assuming; arrogant.
Fine; well; excellent.
noun.
The act of one who tops.
noun.
Nautical, the act of pulling one extremity of a yard or boom higher than the other.
noun.
The act of reducing to an exact level the points of the teeth of a saw.
noun.
That which tops; the upper part of anything; especially, a crest of hair, feathers, etc., upon the head: said of a forelock or topknot, an egret, the mane of a horse, etc.
noun.
plural That which is cut off in topping, as the branches of a tree.
noun.
plural That which comes from hemp in the process of hatcheling.
noun.
The tail of an artificial fly, used by anglers, usually a feather from the crest of the golden pheasant.