trysail mast


nounNautical.
  1. a small auxiliary mast fastened just abaft the mainmast or foremast of a sailing vessel.

Origin of trysail mast

1
First 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