Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having no mast: as, a mastless vessel.
- Bearing or producing no mast: as, a mastless beech.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having no mast.
- adjective Bearing no mast.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Without a
mast .
Etymologies
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Examples
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As the cacophony of sound raged around him he fell silent, breathing deeply, and stood there for a short while longer, turning this way and that, like a once great ship lashed by a terrible storm, mastless and twisting at anchor, until something in him seemed to give way.
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Lined up alongside a pontoon on the landward side of the marina is a cluster of strange, mastless boats.
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Lined up alongside a pontoon on the landward side of the marina is a cluster of strange, mastless boats.
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He laughed at their gunnery training on a mastless ship and demanded to know just how they could be of service on an expedition sailing ship which carried only small arms.
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The ship had been mastless and permanently moored in Portsmouth, Crozier knew, for more than fifteen years, serving as a training vessel for the Royal Navy's most promising gunners.
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It gave one a sickening sensation to see it, for, mastless and useless as she was, she seemed to be a link with the outer world.
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After that come memories of Sligo, where I live with my grandparents.2 I am sitting on the ground looking at a mastless toy boat with the paint rubbed and scratched, and I say to myself in great melancholy, ‘It is further away than it used to be’, and while I am saying it I am looking at a long scratch in the stern, for it is especially the scratch which is further away.
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After that come memories of Sligo, where I live with my grandparents.2 I am sitting on the ground looking at a mastless toy boat with the paint rubbed and scratched, and I say to myself in great melancholy, ‘It is further away than it used to be’, and while I am saying it I am looking at a long scratch in the stern, for it is especially the scratch which is further away.
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After that come memories of Sligo, where I live with my grandparents.2 I am sitting on the ground looking at a mastless toy boat with the paint rubbed and scratched, and I say to myself in great melancholy, ‘It is further away than it used to be’, and while I am saying it I am looking at a long scratch in the stern, for it is especially the scratch which is further away.
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After that come memories of Sligo, where I live with my grandparents.2 I am sitting on the ground looking at a mastless toy boat with the paint rubbed and scratched, and I say to myself in great melancholy, ‘It is further away than it used to be’, and while I am saying it I am looking at a long scratch in the stern, for it is especially the scratch which is further away.
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