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
The ship of state lurched along through the mingled storms, mastless, rudderless, pilotless, priestless, and everybody wondered which would live the longer, the ship or the storm.
From The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards by Henry Raleigh
These symbols had a tongue, And told the dreary lengths of years I must drag my weight with me; Or be like a mastless ship stuck fast On a deep, stagnant sea.
From The Germ Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Meanwhile, nearby the storm had seized a ship That mastless drove before the wind and rain, And soon with all beneath the waves would slip: The people cried for help, but all in vain.
From Bearslayer A free translation from the unrhymed Latvian into English heroic verse by Arthur Cropley
But the next moment there was a crash and a cry, and we were a mastless wreck, drifting helplessly.
From Havelok the Dane A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler
