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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
masthead .
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Examples
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And in this stretch of ocean, lookouts were mastheaded at day-dawn and kept mastheaded until twilight of evening, when the Mary
CHAPTER XII 2010
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All the same though, the sails were all loosed in about a minute, it seemed, and the yards mastheaded.
The Ghost Pirates 2007
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The same afternoon we daylighted the anchor, mastheaded the sails, crested the briny wave like a Yankee sea-serpent, and on the second day let go no fool of a piece of crooked iron off dirty Deptford.
A Sailor of King George Frederick Hoffman
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Your yards stay mastheaded mostly by force o 'habit, hey?
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Then came the order for the t'gallantsail, and by the time that was mastheaded, the skipper followed with orders for royals, fore and aft.
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The other sloops then mastheaded their topsails, and the schooners peaked their gaffs.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 Various
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And in this stretch of ocean, lookouts were mastheaded at day-dawn and kept mastheaded until twilight of evening, when the Mary
Chapter 12 1917
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Roger Brevard watched the _Nautilus_ while one by one the topsails were sheeted home and the yards mastheaded.
Java Head Joseph Hergesheimer 1917
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All the same though, the sails were all loosed in about a minute, it seemed, and the yards mastheaded.
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There was no flagstaff at Fort Pickens; but the Union colors were at once hung out over the northwest bastion, in full view of the shore, while the _Supply_ and _Wyandotte_, the only naval vessels in the bay, and both commanded by loyal men, mastheaded extra colors and stood clear.
Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray William Charles Henry Wood 1905
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