lower mast
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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This last fact was apparent, indeed, by the masts themselves, the lower mast aft being several feet out of water, while the fore-mast was entirely buried, leaving nothing but the fore-topmast exposed.
From Jack Tier by James Fenimore Cooper
In the same manner as the top mast slides up through the cap of the lower mast, the topgallant-mast slides up through the cap of the top-masts.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
They waited till daylight, and then were just able to distinguish the lower mast of a steamer standing out of the water.
From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 by Frederick Whymper
In a few minutes we saw another of our competitors in the same state, her lower mast having gone apparently about the same distance from the deck.
From Through East Anglia in a Motor Car by J. E. (James Edmund) Vincent
They curled round the lower mast, they ran up the rigging, they licked their way up the shrouds.
From Latitude 19 degree A Romance of the West Indies in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Twenty by Mrs. Schuyler Crowninshield
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