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▪ I. masthead, n.
(Stress variable.)
Also mast-head.
[mast n.1]
1. a. The head or highest part of a mast; usually, the head of the lower mast (as a place of observation or punishment), or the highest part of the whole mast as the place for the display of flags, etc.
1748Anson's Voy. ii. iv. 162 We had no sight of the ship from the mast-head. 1835W. Irving Tour Prairies 326 [He] took a look-out, like a mariner from the mast-head at sea. 1836Marryat Midsh. Easy xii, Go up to the mast⁓head, and wait there till I call you down. 1847Tennyson Princess iv. 255 Like the mystic fire on a mast-head, Prophet of storm. c1860H. Stuart Seaman's Catech. 74 Above the hounds is the masthead to receive the rigging. 1888Froude Eng. in W. Ind. iii. 33 The signal to engage was flying from the masthead of..Rodney's ship.
b. fig. (a) Phr. to the masthead: to the full. Sc. (b) jocular. (Naut.) A person's head.
1821W. Liddle Poems 97 (E.D.D.) An Idiot cram'd to the mast-head Wi' that insatiate glutton weed. 1884H. Collingwood Under Meteor Flag 35 Slip down to the doctor, and get him to clap a plaster over your mast-head. 1887Stevenson Misadv. J. Nicholson i, He was..enjoying to the mast-head the modest pleasures of admiration.
c. In newspapers, journals, etc., the title, colophon, motto, etc., printed in some conspicuous position, usually immediately preceding the editorial matter or at the top of the first page. orig. U.S.
1838Hennepin (Illinois) Jrnl. 22 Dec. 1/1 Many of our Whig friends..were anxious that the Journal should..carry Whig colors at the mast-head. 1923O. G. Villard Some Newspapers iii. 43 The vision of its purpose..which it now daily carries under its ‘mast-head’ on the editorial page. 1932P. Van D. Stern Introd. Typogr. 198 Mast⁓head, the heading on the first page of a newspaper. 1937Amer. Speech XII. 13 About 35 dailies use the word Telegram in their masthead. 1952S. Kauffmann Philanderer (1953) ix. 141 She was a young, bright, snub-nosed, bobbed-hair cartoon character, to appear in the masthead and all institutional advertising. 1959Manch. Guardian 22 Aug. 4/1 The masthead on page one will follow the style adopted..above our principal comment of the day. 1967Bucks Examiner 3 Feb. 1/7 This week the ‘Bucks Examiner’ has a new masthead—the name given by newspaper men to the title at the top of page one. 1973Guardian 28 Feb. 13/3 Varsity, the Cambridge University newspaper..will appear next term under the mast head of its brasher rival Stop Press.
2. One who is stationed at the mast-head; a mast-head man.
In Dicts.
3. attrib. and Comb., as masthead-light, masthead man, masthead pendant; masthead cutter, -sloop (see quot. 1961); masthead genoa, a Genoa jib which is attached to the topmost part of the mast; masthead high adv., to the height of the masthead.
1949Yachting Monthly LXXXVII. 235/2 Her rig is a *masthead cutter—that is to say the working jib sets to the masthead. 1961F. H. Burgess Dict. Sailing 144 Mast⁓head cutter or sloop, a cutter or sloop whose fore stay, on which the luff of the foresail is set, reaches up to the mast⁓head. 1962J. A. S. Russell in Roving Commissions 1961 147 Her masthead cutter rig, with the mast well inboard and a boomed staysail, is snug and versatile.
1958Yachting World Ann. 115 Springtide has 900 sq. ft. in her working rig of main, mizzen, and boom staysail. The area may be increased by 400 sq. ft. with the *masthead genoa. 1967J. Howard-Williams Sails vii. 102 A bending mast..will mean abandoning ideas of a masthead genoa.
1822Scott Pirate ii, The sea-snake..with his broad glittering eyes, raised *mast-head high, looks out, as it seems..for victims.
1878Kemp Yacht & Boat Sailing 358/2 *Masthead Light, the white light which steam vessels are required to exhibit at the masthead when under way.
c1860H. Stuart Seaman's Catech. 45 The *mast head men put on a sail-tackle whip. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Mast-head men, the men stationed aloft to keep a look⁓out.
Ibid., *Mast-head pendant. 1878Kemp Yacht & Boat Sailing 358/2 Masthead Pendants, the pendants and runners which help support the mast.
1954D. Phillips-Birt Rigs & Rigging of Yachts 49 The *masthead sloop—the sloop in which a headsail may be set on a forestay from the masthead. 1958Yachting World Ann. 102/2 For some reason, yachtsmen appear shy of the masthead sloop rig; yet it is difficult to see what a yacht like this would gain by the lower fore-triangle.
▪ II. masthead, v.
Also mast-head.
[f. the n.]
1. trans. To send (a sailor) to the mast-head as a punishment.
1829Marryat F. Mildmay iv, The next morning I was..mast-headed, to do penance. a1845Syd. Smith in Lady Holland Mem. (1855) I. 260 If you masthead a sailor for not doing his duty, why should you not weathercock a parishioner for refusing to pay tithes? 1884Century Mag. XXIX. 172 The one-armed hero is mastheaded.
transf. and fig.1861–8Lowell Emerson Pr. Wks. 1890 I. 357 The lecturer built up so lofty a pedestal under certain figures as to lift them into a prominence of obscurity, and seem to masthead them there. 1883Stevenson Treas. Isl. iii. xv, They're [sc. the goats] all mastheaded on them mountings for the fear of Benjamin Gunn.
2. To raise (a yard, sail, etc.) to its position on the mast or at the masthead.
1840R. H. Dana Bef. Mast xxv. 80 Before our yards were mast-headed, the Ayacucho had spread her wings. 1881Daily Tel. 24 Feb., I waited to see the men masthead the revolving lamp. 1882Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 199 The topsails are mast-headed.
Hence mastheaded ppl. a., mastheading vbl. n.
1836Marryat Midsh. Easy xii, There is not one word of mast-heading in the whole of them. 1888Stevenson Black Arrow 53 Like a mast-headed seaman. 1893Sloane-Stanley Remin. Midshipm. Life xiii. 167 Mast-heading had been forbidden by the Admiralty. |