Crossword clues for dismast
dismast
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dismast \Dis*mast"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dismasted; p. pr. & vb. n. Dismasting.] [Pref. dis- + mast: cf. F. d['e]m[^a]ter.] To deprive of a mast of masts; to break and carry away the masts from; as, a storm dismasted the ship.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. (label en transitive nautical) to break off the mast (qualifier: of a ship), especially by gunfire.
Usage examples of "dismast".
Toner would have to beat Persephone then turn and come to the rescue of Bucephalas, which would, if the fight went on, be nothing more than a dismasted hulk.
After he realized that our language was English he yelled that he was bound to Valetta from Sardinia, that he had been dismasted in the gale, and that there were pirates on the Sicilian coast who would soon emerge.
But the Argonaute had dismasted Spite without any challenge or warning.
But the next five minutes were as unhappy as any he had ever spent -this beautiful, beautiful ship a mere hulk, dismasted, bilged.
But the next five minutes were as unhappy as any he had ever spent -this beautiful, beautiful ship a mere hulk, dismasted, bilged .
I feel strained, half stranded, as ropes that tow dismasted frigates in a gale.
Describing the way that two French ships of the line had been dismasted and left wallowing helplessly alongside each other was going to be difficult enough, and it was straining credulity not to have their names.
Ramage glanced at the chart: there were no outlying rocks: they could manoeuvre without risk, except that if either of them was dismasted they would be blown on to the rocks, since this was a lee shore.
He could even picture Undine dismasted and wallowing amongst her own dead and dying before her final plunge.
Jack could bear it no longer: he hurried up on deck in time to see a breeze spring up off the land and the squadron make sail on the starboard tack, standing eastwards for Gibraltar and leaving the dismasted, helpless Hannibal to her fate under the guns of the Torre del Almirante.
The first person Jack saw upon it, standing there with his hands behind his back and looking down on his own dismasted ship, was Captain Ferris of the Hannibal.
She was hove-to as well, looking queerly lopsided in her partially dismasted condition.
Even if she were not dismasted, she would be too crippled to withstand the next encounter.
That typhoon was horribly destructive: two Indiamen were dismasted and many, many country ships foundered.
A moment later he felt Southwick tapping his arm and, glancing where he pointed, saw the Topaz less than three hundred yards away, dismasted and lying to the wreckage like a thick stick held in a mill-stream by pieces of string.