What is "unstepped"

Usage examples of "unstepped".

They were about fifteen paces from bow to stern, broad of beam with an unstepped mast and side-mounted steering oar.

Furthermore, both of her masts could be unstepped and laid out to lessen wind resistance when she was being propelled by oar power.

The captain ordered the mast unstepped and stowed, and under oars the longship glided in to Cannobaen.

And in fact a suitably long pole had been unstepped and laid aside, and a new-looking linen sail more or less neatly furled.

Next they unstepped the mast and put it down to lie beside them, on one side of the long deck.

Roscha called, and Gelsomina pulled herself up out of the steering well, came to sit on the unstepped mast.

Of a day, a half-dozen of the long, low, lean raiders, lashed one to the other at port and stern boards, their masts all unstepped, were rocking gently in a sheltered cove well hidden behind treacherous shoals and a spit of swampy, much overgrown land, more than a fathom of brackish water beneath their keels and a steady Seabreeze sweeping most of the noxious insects inland, as well as helping to dispel the muggy heat.

Quickly he steered into one of the small estuaries that fed the James, unstepped the mast, and grinned contentedly as search parties swept by.

There were a few dinghies left, far back in the chambers, and a couple of masted fishing boats with the masts unstepped, but nothing which looked capable of handling that seismically ravaged sea.

And so help me, if you're tinselling me I'll come back here with fifty ccs of real Stiff and feed you the lot, unstepped.