Mainmast

Quick meaning: Mainmast is a noun meaning (nautical) The tallest mast of a sailing ship that has more than one mast; particularly a full-rigged ship.

Meaning

(nautical) The tallest mast of a sailing ship that has more than one mast; particularly a full-rigged ship.

More Meanings

1. (nautical) The second-foremost mast of a non-sailing ship with more than one mast.

Example Sentences

The try-works are planted between the foremast and mainmast, the most roomy part of the deck.

When we were in the latitude of Martinico, and near making the land, one morning we had a brisk gale of wind, and, carrying too much sail, the main-mast went over the side.

O, the most piteous cry of the poor souls! sometimes to see ’em, and not to see ’em; now the ship boring the moon with her main-mast, and anon swallowed with yest and froth, as you’ld thrust a cork into a hogshead.

Then turning to his first Minister, who waited behind him with a white Staff near as tall as the Main-mast of the Royal Soveraign, he observed how contemptible a thing was human Grandeur, which could be mimicked by such diminutive Insects as I […]

Word Forms

• mainmasts
• main-mast

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include aft, sprung, shrouds, topmast, supermast, mainsail.

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