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- noun Plural form of
mizzenmast .
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Examples
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Avatar: The Last Airbender cruise instead, but I know for a fact that geekfolk never get tired of sea chanteys, mizzenmasts and grog.
Wired Top Stories 2009
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Looking up after some while I saw the _Happy Despatch_ lay a helpless wreck, her main and mizzenmasts shot away and her shattered hull fast locked in close conflict with her indomitable foe.
Martin Conisby's Vengeance Jeffery Farnol 1915
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But, alas! the worthy second luff was mistaken for once in his life; it was every whit as thick up there as it was down on deck, and not a thing could I see but the fore and mizzenmasts, with their intricacies of standing and running rigging, their tapering yards, and their broad spaces of wet and drooping canvas, hanging limp and looming spectrally through the ghostly mist-wreaths.
A Pirate of the Caribbees Harry Collingwood 1886
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