made mast

American  

noun

Nautical.

1. a wooden mast formed of several shaped, longitudinal pieces joined together.

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Etymology

Origin of made mast

First recorded in 1620–30

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made mast

Also, a piece of timber forming the diameter of a made 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

It is either formed of one piece, and called a pole-mast, or composed of several pieces joined together and termed a made 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

If it was what was known as "a made mast," it was built up of two, or three, or four, different trees, judiciously sawn, well seasoned, and then hooped together.

From On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. by John Masefield

Those which secure the aris pieces of a made 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

Last of all he made mast and sail and rigging; and when all was ready he thrust the frail vessel with rollers and levers down to the sea.

From Stories from the Odyssey by H. L. (Herbert Lord) Havell

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