royal mast
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of royal mast
First recorded in 1785–95
Example Sentences
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He could feel the royal mast swaying and whipping like a fishing-rod—the stays were as tight as the strings of a fiddle.
From Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812 by Barnes, James
The gentleman had the air of a military man: short, erect as a royal mast, with plenty of whiskers and moustache, though he wore his chin cropped.
From The Honour of the Flag by Russell, W. Clark (William Clark)
At length the main royal mast of the latter gave way in the strain, which gave the stranger so much the advantage that he effected a junction with his consort.
From The Second War with England, Vol. 2 of 2 by Headley, Joel Tyler
And thus, with one hand clinging round the royal mast, Ahab gazed abroad upon the sea for miles and miles,—ahead, astern, this side, and that,—within the wide expanded circle commanded at so great a height.
From Moby Dick, or, the whale by Melville, Herman
The lowest section was ten inches square and tapered upwards to the small royal mast at a prospective height of one hundred and twenty feet.
From The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 by Mawson, Douglas, Sir
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