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Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /masteˈleɾo/
- Rhymes: -eɾo
- Syllabification: mas‧te‧le‧ro
Noun
mastelero m (plural masteleros)
- (nautical) topsail
1877, Benito Pérez Galdós, Gloria:Ya no se movió más sino con movimientos pequeños; y en su convulsión postrera, temblaban las rotas jarcias; y el mastelero de trinquete con la doble cruz formada por las vergas se doblaba como un báculo roto.- He no longer moved except with small movements; and in his last convulsion the broken rigging trembled; and the topsail with the double cross formed by the yards bent like a broken staff.
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