mast house

noun

Nautical.

1. a deckhouse built around a mast as a platform for cargo-handling machinery, gear, and controls.

2. (formerly) a towerlike crane for stepping and removing masts from ships or boats.

3. a building in which masts are made.

Word History and Origins

Origin of mast house¹

First recorded in 1760–70

Example Sentences

Mast′-house, the place in dockyards where masts are made.—adj.

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It was a perfect dockyard in miniature, with warehouses, capstan-house, mast house, rigging shed, sail loft—in fact every possible requisite for keeping not only one but as many as three or four craft in perfect order.

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