Crossword clues for masthead
masthead
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Masthead \Mast"head`\, n. (Naut.) The top or head of a mast; the part of a mast above the hounds.
Masthead \Mast"head"\, v. t. (Naut.)
To cause to go to the masthead as a punishment.
--Marryat.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context nautical English) The top of a mast. 2 (context US English) A list of a newspaper or other periodical's main staff, contributing writers, publisher, circulation, advertising rates etc. 3 (context UK English) The title (normally in a large and distinctive font) of a newspaper at the top of the front page vb. (context nautical transitive English) To send to the masthead as a punishment.
WordNet
n. a listing printed in all issues of a newspaper or magazine (usually on the editorial page) that gives the name of the publication and the names of the editorial staff, etc. [syn: flag]
the title of a newspaper or magazine; usually printed on the front page and on the editorial page
the head or top of a mast
Wikipedia
Masthead may refer to:
In American usage, a publication's masthead is a printed list, published in a fixed position in each edition, of its owners, departments, officers and address details, which in British English usage is known as imprint.
In the UK and many other Commonwealth nations, "the masthead" is a publication's designed title as it appears on the front page; what in American English is known as the nameplate.
Usage examples of "masthead".
The long narrow hull slicing boldly through the sunset blush of lake water, the clean run of the wake streaming out behind her, the standard of house Barca hoisted at the crosstree of her masthead and her high castles fore and aft standing tall and proud above the papyrus banks on either hand.
The officers saluted the standard of Barca at the masthead with a clenched fist, but the slave gangs who were doomed for ever to fight the lake weed stood dumbly and watched with patient animal eyes.
The royal standard of house Barca stood at her masthead, and there were lamps burning at stem and stern.
Festooned with a brave display of heraldry, she flew a pennoncel at the masthead, the standard of Eldaraigne at the forecastle, four other banners aft, including the yellow ensign of the Merchant Service, and streamers, thirty yards long, charged with yellow dragons, blue lozenges, and white birds.
I know that Mister Leary normally replots the course from a masthead every few hours.
The long narrow hull slicing boldly through the sunset blush of lake water, the clean run of the wake streaming out behind her, the standard of house Barca hoisted at the crosstree of her masthead and her high castles fore and aft standing tall and proud above the papyrus banks on either hand.
Each winch had two drums and the line ran three times round each drum and thence up to masthead blocks and so out through a fairlead in the bow.
There was another, duller explosion, a terrible flurry of spray and then the winch drums were screaming and the masthead block dragging down as the heavy two-inch whale line went roaring out through the fairlead in the bow.
And there, among the lighter shipping, was the brig bound to the order of the gastaldo grande, with the yellow sails and device of the rising sun--with the gobbo in orange doublet on the masthead for good luck, and the gobbo on the deck to make it sure.
One of the lines they had severed had been that by which the big lantern had been hoist to and held at the masthead, and when it came plunging down on deck, it had smashed and the oil spreading out from it had been fired by the still-lit wick to confront the crewmen and officers who came spilling out from the passages with an immediate concern that, for the moment, occupied them so thoroughly that they did not at once notice the fact that the ship was no longer secured by its anchor and was drifting with the river current, stern-foremost, down toward the treacherous bars and mudbanks just above the mouth of the Rio Oso.
From each masthead flew the banners of Islam and the pennants of Omani and the Great Mogul.
Eager to get back into operation, a technician switched on the antenna training motor and Brad Williams revolved a dozen times at the masthead, his angry shouts swamped by the voices of the guns, until an officer on the bridge noticed that his majestic sweeps around the horizon were apparently unintentional.
Steelkilt was shaking one of the backstays leading far aloft to where two of his comrades were standing their mastheads.
We are being followed: Galliots under sail have been spotted from the masthead.
Bennan stationed extra lookouts on the mastheads, and the officers wore both swords and pistols, as if they readied against ambuscade.