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n. (alternative form of mizzenmast English)
Usage examples of "mizzen-mast".
Even if the mainyard held, the mizzen-mast would soon fall into the sea alongside.
He was safe and steady on the yard just as the outward roll of the Indefatigable gave the balancing spars their final impetus, and the mizzen-topmast parted company from the broken mizzen-mast and the whole wreck fell down into the sea alongside.
A shot gouged a furrow through the Pucelle's forecastle deck, another struck the mizzen-mast, shaking it, a third hammered the length of the weather deck, piercing bows and stern and miraculously touching nothing in the flight between.
A shot gouged a furrow through the Pucelle’s forecastle deck, another struck the mizzen-mast, shaking it, a third hammered the length of the weather deck, piercing bows and stern and miraculously touching nothing in the flight between.