What is "mainmasts"

Usage examples of "mainmasts".

They seemed to be typical galliots of the French Channel ports - except that the mainmasts were set so far aft, and the stays from the mainmast to the stemhead, bowsprit and jibboom seemed fewer than usual but comparatively massive.

Her dorsal fore and mainmasts, her port mizzen, her starboard mizzen, main, and foremasts were gone, snapped off by the violence of their close passage.

Lages had made use of yesterday’s calm to beach his warships and unstep his mainmasts for battle.

The mainmasts were unstepped—the impact of ramming would have sent them crashing onto the decks.

The vessels were under oars, their sails and mainmasts landed onshore to lighten them for action before they set out.

Thanks to the extra bracing and rigging Ta-hoding had laid on, the three mainmasts had held, though one swayed dangerously in its braces.

The vessels were under oars, their sails and mainmasts landed onshore to lighten them for action before they set put.

The lookouts on the _Slanderscree's_ fore and mainmasts could see over them and study the terrain beyond.