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- n. Plural form of mainmast.
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“Within moments the fire spread through the hold, up the stairs, and onto the mainmasts and rigging.”
“Newtonian mainmasts are rigged with four graviton lugsails.”
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“Many carried a bourcet, or lugsail, on the foremast see below for an explanation, or two lugsails on the fore-and mainmasts as their only rig.15”
“The big foremasts and mainmasts were surmounted by topmasts and sometimes topgallant masts.”
“Only a few looked inhabited -- lawns bestrewn with gadgets, excavations begun with small bulldozers and abandoned, Pack or Swarm or Family flags flying from the mainmasts.”
“Many of these trees are so large, that they would be able to furnish mainmasts for fifty-gun ships.”
Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook
“He recognized such weather, the sudden storms that drove ships upon the rocks, that tore mainmasts from their roots and set strong men adrift and confused.”
“Fire hoses were laid out, glass windscreens on the bridges were removed, Union Jacks soared to the peaks of the mainmasts, and White Ensigns whipped from the yardarms and gaffs.”
Castles of Steel
“Low to the water—below the tops of the mainmasts of the two warships—he dropped his torpedo, then flew over both vessels firing his machine guns.”
“Travesties of ships only, mizzens long gone, mainmasts broken off forty feet aloft in cracks and splinters, foremasts more or less intact but stripped of shrouds, clothing hanging limp and wet from lines strung between each fore and main, as well as on the stays connecting the fore with a stub of bowsprit.”
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