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- noun Plural form of
mainmast .
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Examples
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Within moments the fire spread through the hold, up the stairs, and onto the mainmasts and rigging.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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Newtonian mainmasts are rigged with four graviton lugsails.
365 tomorrows » 2008 » November : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008
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Within moments the fire spread through the hold, up the stairs, and onto the mainmasts and rigging.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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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
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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The big foremasts and mainmasts were surmounted by topmasts and sometimes topgallant masts.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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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
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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The big foremasts and mainmasts were surmounted by topmasts and sometimes topgallant masts.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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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.
Boing Boing: January 16, 2005 - January 22, 2005 Archives 2005
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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 2003
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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 2003
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