To cover on the top or with a top.
I like my ice cream topped with chocolate sauce.
To exceed in height.
Five were proper slender youths, the eldest of whom had not yet beard full grown, black-browed and great of jaw; the sixth, huge as a neat, topped them by half a head.
Situated on the top of something.
Best; of the highest quality, fame or rank.
She's in the top dance school.
Very good, of high quality, power, or rank.
He's a top lawyer.
The signal among tailors and seamstresses for snuffing the candle. The last of them to cry "top" had to snuff the candle.
My hairs, you perceive, are grown grey in following our sublime trade: full many a time have I cried top in the winter, the first of all the gentlemen on the board; and many a time has it fallen to my lot to apply the snuffers, and take off the filthy excrescence from the candle myself, but never before, in the experience of fifty long years, was it thought that English tailors were inferior to foreign ones.
A surname.
From Middle English top, toppe, from Old English topp (“top, highest part; summit; crest; tassel, tuft; (spinning) top, ball; a tuft or ball at the highest point of anything”), from Proto-West Germani...
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