noun.
The upper leather for a shoe; a vamp.
Being further up, literally or figuratively; higher in place, position, rank, dignity, or the like; superior.
the superiority; the advantage. See To have the upper hand, under Hand.
the name of the highest court of common law (formerly King's Bench) during the Commonwealth.
the top one of a pair of compositor's cases. See the Note under 1st Case, n., 3.
one of the coverts situated above the bases of the tail quills.
the topmost deck of any vessel; the spar deck.
the leather for the vamps and quarters of shoes.
the strake next to the deck, usually of hard wood, and heavier than the other strakes.
the ten thousand, more or less, who are highest in position or wealth; the upper class; the aristocracy.
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the upper half of a double topsail.
all those parts of the hull of a vessel that are properly above water.
This world; the earth; -- in distinction from the underworld.