main-mast

This colossal beam is a yard; that great column of wood which stretches out on the earth as far as the eye can reach is the main-mast.

Les Miserables 2008

English main-mast rises to a height of two hundred and seventeen feet above the water-line.

Les Miserables 2008

Away aft, a dim, shadowy form stood in the wake of a swaying belt of moonlight, that swept the deck a bit abaft the main-mast.

The Ghost Pirates 2007

And so, having all ready, we hove the main-mast into position, after which we proceeded to rig it.

The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig' 2007

But Curtis had already caught hold of the young man, and was hurrying him to the main-mast shrouds, when the

The Survivors of the Chancellor 2003

Fortunately, as I have said, the main-mast and the mizen are of iron; otherwise the heat at their base would long ago have brought them down and our chances of safety would have been much imperilled; but by crowding on sail the

The Survivors of the Chancellor 2003

The Union Jack was flying at the mizzen-mast, and a blue standard bearing the initials E. G., embroidered in gold, and surmounted by a ducal coronet, floated from the topgallant head of the main-mast.

In Search of the Castaways 2003

The hurrying steamships flew off to the right and left over the smooth bosom of the ocean, while sailing vessels, cast off by the pilot-tugs which had hauled them out, lay motionless, dressing themselves from the main-mast to the fore-tops in canvas, white or brown, and ruddy in the setting sun.

Pierre And Jean 2003

As he spoke I cast my eye at the panel-slides, which fore and aft of the main-mast open into the hold.

The Survivors of the Chancellor 2003

A short time afterwards he sent for the boatswain, and ordered him to assemble the crew at the foot of the main-mast.

The Survivors of the Chancellor 2003