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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
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								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. 
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								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 
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								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 
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								"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 
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								"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 
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								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 
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								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 
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								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. 
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								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 
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								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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