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The after and shorter mast of a yawl, ketch, or dandy
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mizenmast
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n. (alternative spelling of mizzenmast English)
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. third mast from the bow in a vessel having three or more masts; the after and shorter mast of a yawl, ketch, or dandy [syn: mizzenmast , mizzen , mizen ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
mizenmast \mizenmast\ n. mizzenmast. Syn: mizzen, mizen.
Usage examples of mizenmast.
The mainmast was almost amidships, the mizenmast halfway between it and the taffrail.
Most of the watch were in the waist, sheltering from the worst of the spray, rain and flying water under the break of the forecastle, but the four men at the wheel and the officer standing behind them with one arm round the mizenmast, had the full choking sweep, and they kept their heads down to be able to breathe.
There was no one in the gunroom at present apart from a seaman who was polishing the table and the foot of the mizenmast, which rose nobly through it half-way along, though Wilkins, whose watch had just been relieved, could be heard snoring in the aftermost larboard dog-hole.
Jack made no reply but glancing through the scuttle he saw that Bulkeley and his men had now raised a spar on the stump of her mizenmast, and that with an improvised lugsail she was lying with her head to the sea, lying much easier.
The grapeshot, after smashing in the cabins, had swept forward to pepper the mizenmast and rip at the carriages of the aftermost guns.
I'll just check the steering and the foot of the mizenmast, and sound the well.