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- noun Plural form of
masthead .
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Examples
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Aloft, at giddy mastheads oscillating above the decks of ships,
Chapter 6 2010
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Almost finished with these old Disney mastheads now; just a couple more left.
Archive 2009-02-01 Roger Langridge 2009
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He set sail and bore away into the west-north-west, two hunters constantly at the mastheads and sweeping the sea with glasses, himself pacing the deck like an angry lion.
Chapter 18 2010
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Mr. Fumaroli makes only two small, noticeable mistakes: He attributes the great English classical scholar Richard Bentley to Oxford he was, in truth, a Cambridge man and he confuses "Greek fire"—the weapon invented by the Byzantines to destroy enemy fleets—with "St. Elmo's fire," a climatic phenomenon that plays harmlessly around the mastheads of storm-tossed ships.
Why They All Came to Versailles Frederic Raphael 2011
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Almost finished with these old Disney mastheads now; just a couple more left.
Mangled Manga Roger Langridge 2009
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The Pyrenees sailed the ten miles; she sailed ten miles more; and the lookouts at the three mastheads saw naught but the naked, sun-washed sea.
THE SEED OF McCOY 2010
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I tacked back and forth and wore for two solid hours, then hove to till daybreak, and cruised back and forth all day, two men at the mastheads.
Bunches of Knuckles 2010
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Lookouts at the mastheads could report no land, and the day passed in drizzling calms and violent squalls.
THE SEED OF McCOY 2010
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Can't wait to see the "let them eat cake" crowd hanging from the mastheads.
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It posted a loss of A$380. 1 million for the prior year after it wrote down the value of its mastheads.
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