Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Nautical: A rough unfinished mast or spar.
- noun The part of a mast above the deck.
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Bidding adieu to the Europe, away we dashed in the little witch of a pilot, a craft of some eighty tons 'burthen, but, viewed from a short distance, not looking more than half that size, so snug was her build, as well as from the absence of every kind of hamper; her shrouds were without ratlins, and her deck without even the protection of a rough-tree -- a nakedness I should by no means like in bad weather.
Impressions of America During the years 1833, 1834 and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume I. Tyrone Power 1818
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