Top

A top (also called spinning top or spintop) is a toy that can be spun on an axis, balancing on a point.

Read more about Top:  Characteristics, Notable Types

Famous quotes containing the word top:

    “You shouldn’t be looking at the bottom of the mountain. Why don’t you try looking at the top some time?”
    —Robert Riskin (1897–1955)

    “We have to have wars now and then just to prove we’re top dog.”
    —Reginald Berkeley (1890–1935)

    “It is cotter-pinned, it is bedded true.
    Everything its parts can do
    Has been thought out and accounted for.
    Your least touch sets it going round,
    And when top stop it rests with you.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)