three-master
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
- three-masted adjective
Etymology
Origin of three-master
First recorded in 1880–85
Example Sentences
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The three-master has successfully passed sea trials in the Bay of Biscay and is now to embark on its maiden voyage: a transatlantic crossing to where its namesake once roved with the Americans.
From BBC
The brutal challenges of Arctic travel were well known by 1879, and the expedition’s hardy three-master — the USS Jeannette, equipped with a supplemental steam engine and a specially reinforced bow — was as prepared for heavy pack ice as any vessel of the time could be.
From Washington Post
The tour de force here, though, is “Harbor Scene on Cape Cod,” a combination of slapdash rough water, coruscating shores and a jaunty yellow-decked three-master that an unknown artist painted in the 1890s.
From New York Times
He would have learned much concerning the differences between a square-rigged three-master and a schooner like the Noank.
From Project Gutenberg
Not a great while after that and just as the day was dawning, a bulky three-master, running along in a steady, businesslike manner, appeared to be almost in danger of being run into by a much smaller craft which had been following her.
From Project Gutenberg
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