Meaning

(nautical) The top of a mast..

Definitions by Sense

1. (nautical) The top of a mast.
2. (US) A list of a newspaper or other periodical's main staff, contributing writers, publisher, circulation, advertising rates etc.
3. (UK, Australia) The title (normally in a large and distinctive font) of a newspaper or other periodical at the top of the front page; (by extension) the publication itself or the rights to it.
4. (television, by extension) The logo of a broadcaster used in an ident.
5. (transitive, nautical) To send to the masthead as a punishment.
6. (transitive) To furnish (a newspaper) with a masthead.

Example Sentences

In most American whalemen the mast-heads are manned almost simultaneously with the vessel’s leaving her port; even though she may have fifteen thousand miles, and more, to sail ere reaching her proper cruising ground.

Maree said she felt worse after articles were written about the video, including by this masthead.

“I was mast-headed, sir.” “Mast-headed! how - for what?”

When the ship happened to be in a warm climate, mastheading constituted a fairly mild punishment; indeed, many regarded it as rather a relief from duty. But in inclement weather the experience was most unpleasant.

It was mastheaded as "Palatka's Only Independent Home-Owned Newspaper."

Word Forms

• mastheads
• mastheading
• mastheaded

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Use masthead when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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