mainmast|mainmasts in English

noun

[main·mast || 'meɪnmɑːst, -məst]

main or tallest mast of a sailing vessel (Nautical)

Use "mainmast|mainmasts" in a sentence

1. I walked aft until I reached the mainmast.

2. Foremast, goal post mainmast, goal post mizzer, and goal post Aftermast

3. • The worst situation was Amidships, by the base of the mainmast

4. To the rear of; aft of: the fife rail Abaft the mainmast.

5. Other articles where Foremast is discussed: sail: …the masts are termed the foremast and the mainmast; when the Aftermast is considerably smaller they are named the mainmast and the mizzenmast

6. Brigantine, two-masted sailing ship with square rigging on the foremast and fore-and-aft rigging on the mainmast

7. What does Barquentine mean? (nautical) A sailing vessel similar to a barque, but fore-and-aft (schooner) rigged on the mainmast

8. Brigandyn MF Brigandin] * * * sailing ship two-masted sailing ship with square rigging on the foremast and fore-and-aft rigging on the mainmast

9. Here two opportunistic brothers, Englishmen Owen Lloyd and John Lloyd plotted with the owners of two Bilanders (twin-masted vessels with lateen sails on the mainmasts) to abscond with the treasure

10. brigantine (plural Brigantines) (nautical) a two - masted vessel, square-rigged on the foremast, but fore-and-aft-rigged mainsail with a square-rig above it on the mainmast.

11. Historical ships, Barque, 19th Century Vintage engraving of Barque, a sailing ship, typically with three masts, in which the foremast and mainmast are square-rigged and the mizzenmast is rigged fore and aft

12. On 21 December, as the ship was leaving Lyttelton to the cheers of large crowds, a young able seaman, Charles Bonner, fell to his death from the top of the mainmast, which he had climbed so as to return the crowd's applause.

13. But as the last whelmings intermixingly poured themselves over the sunken head of the Indian at the mainmast, leaving a few inches of the erect spar yet visible, together with long streaming yards of the flag, which calmly undulated, with ironical Coincidings, over the destroying billows

14. But as the last whelmings intermixingly poured themselves over the sunken head of the Indian at the mainmast, leaving a few inches of the erect spar yet visible, together with long streaming yards of the flag, which calmly undulated, with ironical Coincidings, over the destroying billows they almost touched;- at that instant, a red arm and a

15. But as the last whelmings intermixingly poured themselves over the sunken head of the Indian at the mainmast, leaving a few inches of the erect spar yet visible, together with long streaming yards of the flag, which calmly undulated, with ironical Coincidings, over the destroying billows they almost touched;—at that instant, a red arm and a

16. But as the last whelmings intermixingly poured themselves over the sunken head of the Indian at the mainmast, leaving a few inches of the erect spar yet visible, together with long streaming yards of the flag, which calmly undulated, with ironical Coincidings, over the destroying billows they almost touched;—at that instant, a red arm and a

17. But as the last whelmings intermixingly poured themselves over the sunken head of the Indian at the mainmast, leaving a few inches of the erect spar yet visible, together with long streaming yards of the flag, which calmly undulated, with ironical Coincidings, over the destroying billows they almost touched;- at that instant, a red arm and a