What is "mastmen"

Usage examples of "mastmen".

In spite of her spread of canvas, with all the staysail sheets to be passed over, scarcely a quarter of an hour passed between the pipe of All hands about ship and the moment when the mastmen began flemishing their ropes and making pretty, while France dropped out of sight astern.

I know now that if I order the mastmen to port a spar one jahn, the _Slanderscree_ will react precisely so," and he out­lined air with a sweeping motion of one long arm.