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Mast
·noun The vertical post of a derrick or crane. II. Mast ·noun The fruit of the oak and beech, or ot...

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mast
[Anglo-Saxon mæst, also meant chief or greatest]. A long cylindrical piece of timber elevated perpen...

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dream-holes
the openings left in the walls of steeples, towers, barns, &c. for the admission of light. Glouc. ...

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blow-holes
The nostrils of the cetaceans, situated on the highest part of the head. In the whalebone whales the...

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bobstay-holes
Those cut through the fore-part of the knee of the head, between the cheeks, for the admission of th...

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cat-holes
Places or spaces made in the quarter, for carrying out fasts or springs for steadying or heaving ast...

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eyelet-holes
, are necessary in order to bend a sail to its yard or boom, or to reef it; they consist of round ho...

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futtock-holes
Places through the top-rim for the futtock-plates. ...

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hawse-holes
Cylindrical holes cut through the bows of a ship on each side of the stem, through which the cables ...

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head-holes
The eyelet-holes where the rope-bands of a sail are fitted; they are worked button-hole fashion, ove...

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holes, eyelet
or œillet. The holes in sails for points and rope-bands which are fenced round by stitching the ed...

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lewis-holes
Two holes in the surface of a mortar, superseding ears. ...

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loop-holes
Small openings made in the walls of a castle, or a fortification, for musketry to fire through. Also...

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marline-holes
Holes made for marling, or lacing the foot-rope and clues in courses and top-sails. ...

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point-holes
The eyelet-holes for the points. ...

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port-holes
See ports ...

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sludge-holes
Adaptations at the ends of the water-passages between the flues of a steamer's boilers, by which the...

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Half-mast
·noun A point some distance below the top of a mast or staff; as, a flag a half-mast (a token of mou...

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Jury mast
·add. ·- An apparatus to support the trunk and head in spinal disease. II. Jury mast ·add. ·- A tem...

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dur-mast
An inferior oak of more rapid growth than the true English. ...

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fore-mast
The forward lower-mast in all vessels. (See mast.) ...

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foretop-mast
See top-mast. ...

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half-mast
The lowering a flag in respect for the death of an officer. ...

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jigger-mast
In large vessels it is an additional aftermost mast; thus any sail set on the ensign-staff would be ...

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jury-mast
A temporary or occasional mast erected in a ship in the place of one which has been carried away in ...

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mast-carlings
Those large carlings which are placed at the sides of the masts from beam to beam, to frame the part...

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mast-coat
A conical canvas fitted over the wedges round the mast, to prevent water oozing down from the decks....

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mast-head
The upper part of a mast above the rigging. ...

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mast-heading
A well-known marine punishment, said to give midshipmen the best time for reading. A court-martial, ...

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mast-high
A figurative expression of height. ...

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mast-hoops
The iron hoops on made or built masts. ...

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mast-house
In dockyards, where masts are made. ...

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mast-rope
[Anglo-Saxon mæst-ràp]. That which is used for sending masts up or down. ...

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mizen-mast
The aftermost mast of a ship (see shrouds, stay, yard, &c.), observing only that the epithet of fore...

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sheer-mast
The peculiar rig of the rafts on the Guayaquil river; also of the piratical prahus of the eastern se...

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skysail-mast
The pole or upper portion of a royal mast, when long enough to serve for setting a skysail; otherwis...

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topgallant-mast
The third mast above the deck; the uppermost before the days of royals and flying kites. ...

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top-mast
The second division of a mast above the deck. (See mast.) ...

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trysail-mast
A spar abaft the fore and main mast, for hoisting the trysail. ...

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afore the mast
See before the mast. ...

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before the mast
The station of the working seamen, as distinguishing them from the officers. ...

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fore-mast man
From "before the mast." A private seaman as distinguished from an officer of a ship. ...

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foretop-gallant-mast
See topgallant-mast, to which may be added its proper sail, yard, and studding-sail. ...

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hand mast-piece
The smaller hand mast-spars. ...

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hand mast-spar
A round mast; those from Riga are commonly over 70 feet long by 20 inches diameter. ...

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main royal-mast
That above the main topgallant-mast. ...

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mast-head men
The men stationed aloft to keep a look-out. ...

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mast-head pendants
See pendant. ...

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mizen mast-head
Rear-admirals carry their flag at their mizen. ...

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reefed top-mast
When a top-mast is sprung in or near the cap, the lower piece is cut off, and a new fid-hole cut, by...

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jury mast. a journiere
mast; i.e. a mast for the day or occasion. ...

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cheeks of the mast
The faces or projecting parts on each side of the masts, formed to sustain the trestle-trees upon wh...

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dolphin of the mast
A kind of wreath or strap formed of plaited cordage, to be fastened occasionally round the lower yar...

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head of a mast
, or mast-head. The upper part of any mast, or that whereon the caps or trucks are fitted. ...

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heel of a mast
The lower end, which either fits into the step attached to the keel, or in top-masts is sustained by...

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pay a mast, to
or pay a yard, to To anoint it with tar, turpentine, rosin, tallow, or varnish; tallow is particul...

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wring a mast, to
To bend, cripple, or strain it out of its natural position by setting the shrouds up too taut. The p...

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housing of a lower mast
That part of a mast which is below deck to the step in the kelson; of a bowsprit, the portion within...

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as deaf as the main-mast
Said of one who does not readily catch an order given. Thus at sea the main-mast is synonymous with ...

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