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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A sailing vessel having two masts.

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Examples

  • He chose a craft he never seen, a ketch, a compromise between a yawl and a schooner, a two-master with a larger sail forward.

    Photo of the Real Snark 2010

  • Redden Alt Mer was awake again, standing at the tiller, steering the skiff with a sure hand in the wake of the two-master.

    Ilse Witch Brooks, Terry 2000

  • The liveship was not only fleeter than the two-master, but in a position to crowd her over in the channel.

    The Mad Ship Hobb, Robin 1999

  • "Young Toric often sends his two-master north for trade," said one of the seaholders, in a voice so confidential that Piemur had to strain to catch the words.

    Dragon Drums McCaffrey, Anne, 1926- 1979

  • "Young Toric often sends his two-master north for trade," said one of the seaholders, in a voice so confidential that Piemur had to strain to catch the words.

    Dragon Drums McCaffrey, Anne, 1926- 1979

  • The brig was almost the smallest two-master that could successfully round Cape Horn at the farthest tip of South America.

    Hawaii Michener, James 1959

  • Then, suddenly, the ebb sweeps off from the intruder, and leaves his two-master keeled over, with useless anchor and cable exposed,

    Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses Frederic S. Cozzens

  • Narrow of beam, a two-master with a steel hull that stood well out of the water forward, she rode the water with the repose and high glee of the bird she was named after.

    Curlie Carson Listens In 1918

  • She was a two-master, and, when I saw her first, as dirty and disreputable as are most coasting-vessels.

    The After House Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

  • It looked like a ring of white snow floating on the water, and inside the ring was a careened two-master -- just the ribs and stumps left.

    It, and Other Stories Gouverneur Morris 1914

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