lower mast

American  

[loh-er] / ˈloʊ ər /

noun

Nautical.

1. the lowermost spar of a compound mast, stepped in the hull of a vessel and carrying a topmast and any other upper spars.

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lower mast

Then came the upper spars wheeling strongly round, under the pressure of the vessel's bottom against the extremity of the lower mast.

From Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore" by James Fenimore Cooper

On the bowsprit is stretched the jib, another triangular sail, which reaches nearly to the top of the lower mast.

From Man on the Ocean A Book about Boats and Ships by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

Are short pieces of rope or chain which secure the lower dead-eyes and futtock-plates of top-mast rigging to a band round a lower mast.

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

In a schooner brig-rigged, the foremast carries four square sails; the foresail, on the lower mast; above, the top-sail, on the topmast; then, on the top-gallant mast, a top-sail and a royal.

From Dick Sand A Captain at Fifteen by Jules Verne

The ships had now so much motion as to strain the gear very much, and even to make the lower mast of the Fury bend in spite of the shores.

From Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy; between 1793 and 1849 by William O. S. Gilly

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