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mainmast|ˈmeɪnmɑːst, -æ-, -məst|
[f. main a. (sense 10) + mast.]
The principal mast in a ship.
15..[see b]. 1596Spenser Pres. St. Ireland Wks. (Globe) 666/2 So that he might sitt, as it were, at the very mayne mast of his shipp. 1611Shakes. Wint. T. iii. iii. 94 The Shippe boaring the Moone with her maine Mast. 1634Brereton Trav. (Chetham Soc.) 169 The main-mast which is placed almost in the middle of the ship. 1748Anson's Voy. ii. iv. 161 We converted the fore-mast of the Victualler into a main-mast for the Tryal Sloop. 1764Veitch in Phil. Trans. LIV. 287 Sometimes the name of main-mast is applied to all the three pieces as they stand erected, and sometimes to the lower piece, or part of the mast only: and when they are distinguished severally, they are called the main-mast, main top-mast, and main-top-gallant-mast. 1855Browning By the Fireside iii, Out we slip To cut from the hazels by the creek A mainmast for our ship.
b. attrib., as mainmast-top, mainmast-tree.
15..Sir Andrew Barton xxii. in Surtees Misc. (1888) 70 I'le hange them al on my mayn mast tree. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 18 A sailor ordered up the main-mast top to descry ships. |