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Jury mast   /dʒˈʊri mæst/   Listen
noun
Jury mast  n.  
1.
A temporary mast, in place of one that has been carried away, or broken.
2.
(Med.) An apparatus to support the trunk and head in spinal disease.





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"Jury mast" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Dunton gave it me. He was up there late last season well over on the western side. A north-easterly gale fell on them, and took most of the foremast out of her. I understand they tried to lash on a boom or something as a jury mast, but it hadn't height enough to set much forward canvas, and that being the case she wouldn't bear more than a three-reefed mainsail. Anyway, they couldn't do anything with her on the wind, and as it kept heading them from the east she sidled away down south through the Kuriles into the Yellow ...
— Hawtrey's Deputy • Harold Bindloss
... from under the bow a strip of canvas and an old rusty hatchet. The possession of these articles raised his spirits for a time, so that he set to work to rig up a sort of jury mast and sail. There were three thwarts. From one of these he managed to split two pieces some six feet long without impairing its strength as a brace to stiffen the boat. He lashed the three together with a few bits of spun yarn ...
— Ralph Granger's Fortunes • William Perry Brown


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