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

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

“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

The Montgomery was cruising about fifty miles off Havana when the Frasquito, a two-master, came bowling along toward the Cuban capital.

From The Boys of '98 by Otis, James

This proved to be the British frigate, and her disappointed captain at once pretty sharply explained to the Frenchmen the difference between a two-master from Rio and a British-Yankee runaway bark from nobody knew where.

From Ahead of the Army by Emerson, C. Chase

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.