main-mast

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English

Noun

main-mast (plural main-masts)

  1. Alternative spelling of mainmast
    • 1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter XVI, in Mansfield Park: , volume I, London: T Egerton, , →OCLC, page 318:
      [] a small sketch of a ship sent four years ago from the Mediterranean by William, with H. M. S. Antwerp at the bottom, in letters as tall as the main-mast.