mast
mastless
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a word derived from
mast.
Example Sentences
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After the storm passed, they were sighted drifting mastless on the Bay and were towed home by an obliging neighbor.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
She turned out of her direct road and took that which led past his house - swept that way as irresistibly as a mastless hull is swept by the tide.
From Catharine Furze by Mark Rutherford
About the hour of noon a mastless hull is seen in the distance.
From An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America by J. P. (John Patterson) MacLean
Now, slender and curved thou glidest through space like a mastless galley; and then, amid the stars, thou art like a shepherd keeping his flock.
From Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert
It gave one a sickening sensation to see it, for, mastless and useless as she was, she seemed to be a link with the outer world.
From South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition by Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton
