Definitions
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- transitive verb To furnish with a new mast or set of masts.
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- verb transitive To
furnish with a newmast or set of masts.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Hughes meantime, having rigged jury-masts to the "Monmouth," had gone to Trincomalee, where his squadron refitted and the sick were landed for treatment; but it is evident, as has before been mentioned, that the English had not held the port long enough to make an arsenal or supply port, for he says, "I will be able to remast the 'Monmouth' from the spare stores on board the several ships."
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Finding it waste of time to seek for water and wood with which to remast the _Castries_ and repair the _Mascarin_, which leaked a good deal, Marion started on the 10th of March for New Zealand, and reached that island fourteen days later.
Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century Jules Verne 1866
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