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mast

1  [mast, mahst]
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–noun
1. Nautical.
a. 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.
b. any of a number of individual spars composing such a structure, as a topmast supported on trestletrees at the head of a lower mast.
c. 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.
2. Also called pillar. the upright support of a jib crane.
3. any upright pole, as a support for an aerial, a post in certain cranes, etc.
–verb (used with object)
4. to provide with a mast or masts.
—Idiom
5. before the mast, Nautical. as an unlicensed sailor: He served several years before the mast.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME; OE mæst; c. G Mast; akin to L mālus pole

Related forms:
mastless, adjective
mastlike, adjective
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: MAST
Function: abbreviation
military antishock trousers
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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