two-master

American  

[too-mas-ter, -mah-ster] / ˈtuˈmæs tər, -ˈmɑ stər /

noun

Nautical.

1. a vessel rigged with two masts.

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Other Word Forms

• two-masted
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of two-master

1895–1900; two mast(s) + -er ¹

Example Sentences

Narrow of beam, a135 two-master with a steel hull that stood well out of the water forward, she rode the water with the repose and high glee of the bird she was named after.

From Curlie Carson Listens In by Snell, Roy J. (Roy Judson)

He had often declared that the "Argus" should never run from any two-master; and now, that the gage of battle was offered, he promptly accepted.

From The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 by Jackson, W. C.

“The lookout would come in to the station and say, ‘There’s a two-master going to pieces on the bar.’

From Four Afloat Being the Adventures of the Big Four on the Water by Barbour, Ralph Henry

Then, suddenly, the ebb sweeps off from the intruder, and leaves his two-master keeled over, with useless anchor and cable exposed, "to point a moral and adorn a tale."

From Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses by Cozzens, Frederic S.

She was a two-master, and, when I saw her first, as dirty and disreputable as are most coasting-vessels.

From The After House by Rinehart, Mary Roberts