Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The nuts of forest trees accumulated on the ground, formerly used as food for swine.
- noun Nautical A tall vertical spar, sometimes sectioned, that rises from the keel or deck of a sailing vessel to support the sails and the standing and running rigging.
- noun A vertical pole.
- noun A tall vertical antenna, as for a radio.
- noun A captain's mast.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To fix a mast or masts in; supply with a mast or masts; erect the masts of: as, to
mast a ship. - noun The fruit of the oak and beech or other forest-trees; acorns or nuts collectively, serving as food for animals.
- noun A pole or pillar of round timber, or of tubular iron or steel, secured at the lower end to the keel of a vessel, and rising into the air above the deck to support the yards, sails, and rigging in general.
- noun Any tall pole.
- noun The main upright member of a derrick or crane, against which the boom abuts.
- To feed on mast.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The fruit of the oak and beech, or other forest trees; nuts; acorns.
- transitive verb To furnish with a mast or masts; to put the masts of in position.
- noun (Naut.) A pole, or long, strong, round piece of timber, or spar, set upright in a boat or vessel, to sustain the sails, yards, rigging, etc. A mast may also consist of several pieces of timber united by iron bands, or of a hollow pillar of iron or steel.
- noun (Mach.) The vertical post of a derrick or crane.
- noun (Aëronautics) A spar or strut to which tie wires or guys are attached for stiffening purposes.
- noun See under
Afore , andBefore . - noun See under
Coat . - noun one of a number of hoops attached to the fore edge of a boom sail, which slip on the mast as the sail is raised or lowered; also, one of the iron hoops used in making a made mast. See
Made .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A tall, slim post or tower, usually tapering upward, used to support, for examples, the
sails on a ship, flags,floodlights , or communications equipment such as anaerial , usually supported byguy-wires . - verb To supply and fit a mast to a ship
- noun The fruit of forest-trees (beech, oak, chestnut, pecan, etc.), especially if having fallen from the tree, used as fodder for pigs and other animals.
- verb To feed on forest seed or fruit.
- verb agriculture, forestry, ecology To vary fruit and seed production in multi-year cycles.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any sturdy upright pole
- noun nuts of forest trees used as feed for swine
- noun nuts of forest trees (as beechnuts and acorns) accumulated on the ground
- noun a vertical spar for supporting sails
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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We very soon carried out this project, and all of us working away to join our handkerchiefs, we had by the next afternoon a big flag flying from what we called our mast-head.
A Voyage round the World A book for boys William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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I can scarcely bring myself to realize that that great mast is really up and in; that you have lifted it from the water, swung it through the air, and deposited it here where it belongs.
Chapter 37 2010
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Pakistani flag in half mast from the Guardian and Benazir Bhutto from here.
Hope Against Hope 2007
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Pakistani flag in half mast from the Guardian and Benazir Bhutto from here.
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When I turn on the radio, I get a grinding sound 'cos the worm screw on the radio mast is stripped.
Ever so much closer... frankwu 2007
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Unless, of course, he was cast to play the main mast of Sinbad's ship.
March 2005 2005
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Unless, of course, he was cast to play the main mast of Sinbad's ship.
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He calmly stated, My mast is on fire and I've lost my hydraulics.
Boffman, Alan B. 1990
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But what we need mast is same preventive medicine.
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A mooring mast is built now ready for the airship at St. Hubert, south of Montreal.
hramezani commented on the word mast
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December 5, 2012
qms commented on the word mast
The sailor arrived in port at last,
Bedecked in trophies unsurpassed.
Three sheets to the wind
He lavishly sinned
And flew a trollop from his mast.
March 16, 2014