masthead
noun
a statement printed in all issues of a newspaper, magazine, or the like, usually on the editorial page, giving the publication's name, the names of the owner and staff, etc.
mastheaded
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past participleof masthead.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof masthead.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
mastheadnouna statement printed in all issues of a newspaper, magazine, or the like, usually on the editorial page, giving the publication's name, the names of the owner and staff, etc.
Example Sentences
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That boy ought to be mastheaded, and I've told Perez so more'n once.
From Cap'n Eri by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
Under the lee of the stone warehouse, on the solidity of the wharf, the land, Roger Brevard watched the Nautilus while one by one the topsails were sheeted home and the yards mastheaded.
From Java Head by Joseph Hergesheimer
All the same though, the sails were all loosed in about a minute, it seemed, and the yards mastheaded.
From The Ghost Pirates by William Hope Hodgson
“You shan’t be mastheaded for that;” and he clapped the young officer merrily on the back.
From The Ocean Cat's Paw The Story of a Strange Cruise by W. S. (Walter S.) Stacey
I'll not speak of it as spiled, though a prettier and a better bit of bunting was never mastheaded.
From The Honour of the Flag by W. Clark (William Clark) Russell
