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Mizzenmast   Listen
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Mizzenmast  n.  (Naut.) The third mast from the bow in a vessel having three or more masts; the after and shorter mast of a yawl, ketch, or dandy. Note: The definition varies slightly with the dictionary; in some dictionaries it is the last mast of a three-masted vessel; in others, it is the mast after the mainmast of a vessel of three or more masts. PJC.






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"Mizzenmast" Quotes from Famous Books



... a job—brailling in the spanker, I recall—when I missed Newman. An instant before we were together, we had handed the same line; suddenly he was gone from my side. At first I thought he had passed around to the other side of the mizzenmast, for we were coiling down gear that had been disarranged during the job, and I was not worried. But when the second mate ordered us forward to another job, my friend was not ...
— The Blood Ship • Norman Springer



Words linked to "Mizzenmast" :   mizzen, mizenmast, mast



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