mast

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1. mast - Noun

2. mast - Verb

3. Mast - Proper noun

Meaning

The fruit of the oak and beech, or other forest trees; nuts; acorns.

A pole, or long, strong, round piece of timber, or spar, set upright in a boat or vessel, to sustain the sails, yards, rigging, etc. A mast may also consist of several pieces of timber united by iron bands, or of a hollow pillar of iron or steel.

The vertical post of a derrick or crane.

To furnish with a mast or masts; to put the masts of in position; as, to mast a ship.

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Stood for his countrys glory fast, And nailed her colors to the mast. Walter Scott

Going up the mast is one of the most dangerous things you can do as a solo sailor. Abby Sunderland

He rested sitting on the un-stepped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure. Ernest Hemingway

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now. Henry David Thoreau

Even without looking I knew: there was no way I still had a mast. And without a mast, the trip was over. Abby Sunderland

Fifty feet of mast lay in the heaving water, downed lines and shrouds holding it there. Abby Sunderland

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