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English
Adjective
triple-masted (not comparable)
- (nautical) Having three masts.
- Synonym: three-masted
1800, The Monthly Review; or Literary Journal, Enlarged: From September to December, inclusive, M,DCCC. With an Appendix., volume XXXIII, page 284: […] E'en now
He gnaws with keen exasperated tooth
The rock that holds him shorebound to his seat,
Buffets the pier and basis of the cliff,
Seizes the tilting triple-masted bark,
Light as a feather in his pow'rful grasp,
Kindles her sleeping thunder, and enjoys
Her frequent flashes of nocturnal woe.
[…]
2010 October 19, Piero Boitani, Professor of Comparative Literature Piero Boitani, Winged Words: Flight in Poetry and History, ReadHowYouWant.com, →ISBN, page 251:Just off the coast, to the right, a fine triple-masted Dutch cog of the sixteenth century heads for the open sea, its fore and aft sails already unfurled. The sailors are visible in the rigging, about to unfurl the remaining sails.
2013 July 1, Gerry Burke, Paddy’s People: Tales of Life, Love, Laughter, and Smelly Horses, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 46:If they had looked a little harder, the couple would have seen a square-rig, triple-masted clipper go by that was built in the nineteenth century. Nobody sails these kinds ofvessels anymore.
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