out-top

verb

out-top

verb

/aʊt tɒp/

Etymology From out- + top.

1

To have a top higher than another; to exceed.

  • Grey-coloured woods covered a large part of the surface. This even tint was indeed broken up by streaks of yellow sand-break in the lower lands, and by many tall trees of the pine family, out-topping the others--some singly, some in clumps....1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, “How My Shore Adventure Began”, in Treasure Islandᵂⁱᵏⁱˢᵒᵘʳᶜᵉ:

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