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masts

[mast, mahst]

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noun

Nautical.

a spar or structure rising above the hull and upper portions of a ship or boat to hold sails, spars, rigging, booms, signals, etc., at some point on the fore-and-aft line, as a foremast or mainmast.

any of a number of individual spars composing such a structure, as a topmast supported on trestletrees at the head of a lower mast.

any of various portions of a single spar that are beside particular sails, as a top-gallant mast and royal mast formed as a single spar.

Also called pillar. the upright support of a jib crane.

any upright pole, as a support for an aerial, a post in certain cranes, etc.

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verb (used with object)

to provide with a mast or masts.

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Idiom

before the mast, Nautical. as an unlicensed sailor: He served several years before the mast.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English; Old English mæst; cognate with German Mast; akin to Latin mālus pole

Related forms

mast·less, adjective

mast·like, adjective

un·der·mast·ed, adjective

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noun

the fruit of the oak and beech or other forest trees, used as food for hogs and other animals.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English; Old English mæst; cognate with German Mast; akin to meat

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Word Origin & History

mast

"fallen nuts; food for swine," O.E. mæst, from P.Gmc. *mastaz (cf. Du., Ger. mast "mast," O.E. verb mæsten "to fatten, feed"), perhaps from PIE *mazdo-/*maddo- "to be fat, to flow" (cf. Skt. meda "fat," Goth. mats "food," see meat).

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"Everything in the neighbourhood of this city exhibits the appearance of life and cheerfulness. The purity of the air, the brilliancy of the unspotted heavens, the crowd of moving vessels, shooting in various directions, up and down and across the bay and the far- stretching Hudson, and the forest of masts crowded round the quays and wharfs at the entrance of the East River. There is something in all this—in the very air you breathe, and the fair and moving scene that you rest your eye upon—which exhilarates the spirits and makes you in good humour with life and your fellow creatures. We approached these shores under a fervid sun, but the air, though of a higher temperature than I had ever before experienced, was so entirely free of vapor, that I thought it was for the first time in my life that I had drawn a clear breath."

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