mizzenmast

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Her jib-boom was gone, and so were all three masts, -- clean cut off at the deck, as though a hand-saw had done it; but the mizzenmast was alongside, held by the shrouds and backstays, and the port main and fore shrouds streamed like serpents from her chains into the water.

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  1. noun The third mast or the mast aft of a mainmast on a ship having three or more masts.

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  • Lucy lived in fear of dropping through a hidden trapdoor, triggered by nothing more than the innocent action of brushing against the mizzenmast or peeping through a gunport. —  Teresa Medeiros - Thief of Hearts
  • I looked again at the mizzenmast, and saw only the bobbing tip of the mast, the fluttering sail washed in the red light of the setting sun, a loose rope dangling from the yard. —  Jacqueline Carey - Kushiel 02 - Kushiel's Chosen
  • I clung to the mizzenmast, sodden hair plastered across my cheek by the wind, scarce able to hear my own voice shouting above the din. —  Jacqueline Carey - Kushiel 02 - Kushiel's Chosen
  • Before this another gang had been able to slip the other chain to position abaft the mizzenmast, hook on the tackle, and lead the fall through a snatch-block at the quarter-bitts forward to the midship capstan. —  "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea
  • It does not matter about the mizzenmast, but the yard is of importance. —  Held Fast For England A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83)
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