The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mastless
Mastless \Mast"less\, a. [See 2d Mast.] Having no mast; as, a mastless vessel.
Mastless
Mastless \Mast"less\, a. [See 1st Mast.]
Bearing no mast; as, a mastless oak or beech.
--Dryden.
Wiktionary
mastless
a. 1 Without a mast. 2 Bearing no mast (fruit of a tree).
Usage examples of "mastless".
Mastless, her once-busy gundecks packed with casks and crates, she had become just a part of the dockyard.
Smaller ships still, mastless like the boat she was on, with a high sharp peak at the front and a low flat house at the back, spidered across the water on oars, one pair or two, or sometimes three/One long, narrow boat that must have had twenty to a side looked like a hundred-legs skittering along.