jigger-mast

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noun A small mast stepped on the extreme aft of small craft for setting a jigger.

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Mayo was assigned to the jigger-mast, and went aloft to shake out the topsail.

Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 Holman Day 1900
This craft was rigged with two masts, carrying upon the foremast a large standing lug and a jib, and a small lug upon the jigger-mast.

A Middy in Command A Tale of the Slave Squadron Harry Collingwood 1886
These latter, that is to say the jigger-mast and the small lug, we stretched over the stern-sheets of the longboat in the same way as we had dealt with the gig, leading the yoke lines forward on top of the sail, so that the steering arrangements might not be interfered with.

A Middy in Command A Tale of the Slave Squadron Harry Collingwood 1886
The great sails hung limp, without a single flap or quiver in them; the red ensign clung to the jigger-mast;

Macleod of Dare William Black 1869
The jigger-mast was cut in two and flew upward like a pipe-stem.

The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet James Fenimore Cooper 1820
You know, sir, we shot away her jigger-mast in the chase off Elba, and she got a new one, that steves for'rard uncommonly.

The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet James Fenimore Cooper 1820
The manner of setting and bracing the jigger-mast is not indicated in this drawing, but may be partly observed in the plans on pages 287 and 289.]

Sailing Alone Around the World Joshua Slocum 1877