TOP Copy link • TOP 1. s. Height, summit, Vid: For playing with, turbo (general term; also = rhombus: i. e., a magic reel or whirl; Vid: Voss., Verg., Ecl., 8, 68): trochus (a humming-top). To whip a top, turbinem (trochum) pellere; turbinem (trochum) flagello torquere (Persius, 3, 51, where for turbinem we have buxum; i. e., turbinem buxeum, a top of box-wood); turbinem verbere ciere (Tibullus, 1, 5, 3); trocho ludere (to play with a top, Hor., Od., 3, 27, 57): the top spins, turbo (trochus) movetur or versatur. 2. v. To excel, surpass, Vid: To top off the top (of a tree), decacuminare (arborem). 3. adj., summus.