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▪ I. top-piece, n.
The piece that forms or is at the top of anything; spec. †a. The best or finest piece; the chef-d'œuvre, masterpiece. Obs. rare. b. The head. colloq. c. = topit. d. Shoemaking: see quots.
a.1682Bunyan Greatness of Soul Wks. (ed. Offor) I. 122 The soul is the..top-piece that He hath made in all the visible world. 1682― Holy War i. 3 The Top-piece beyond any thing else that he did in that country.
b.1838in Eng. Dial. Dict. 1864Lowell Fireside Trav. 180 The Acephali, with whom Herodotus..wound up his climax of men with abnormal top-pieces.
c.1839Ure Dict. Arts 966 The topit, or top-piece.
d.1911Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 993/1 Lifts and top-pieces for the heels. Ibid. 993/2 The top-pieces, similar to the outsoles, are put on and nailed down to the lifts.
▪ II. top-piece, v. trans.
To put a top-piece on.
1830Galt Lawrie T. iv. iv, In less time than Dick the Cobbler takes to top-piece an old shoe. |