trysail mast
nounNautical.
a small auxiliary mast fastened just abaft the mainmast or foremast of a sailing vessel.
Origin of trysail mast
1First recorded in 1760–70
Words Nearby trysail mast
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How to use trysail mast in a sentence
But the wonder of wonders is the iron pivot of a trysail-mast that was driven clean through the chest of a Scarborough lad.
Haunted London | Walter Thornbury
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