royal mast

American  

Or royalmast

noun

Nautical.

1. a mast situated immediately above, and generally formed as a single spar with, a topgallant mast.

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Etymology

Origin of royal mast

First recorded in 1785–95

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Example Sentences

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royal mast

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 Sir Douglas Mawson

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 James Barnes

I had traced out bit by bit, until now I could clearly see the jackstay, running along the top of the royal mast; and, you know, the royal itself was set.

From The Ghost Pirates by William Hope Hodgson

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 White Whale by Herman Melville

Many in the West are our Kings and Princes noble, Orchards bend double beneath their fruitage vast; Sloes upon the thorn-bush shine in blue abundance, Oaks in redundance drop the royal mast.

From A Celtic Psaltery by Alfred Perceval Graves

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