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Mizzenmast   Listen
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Mizzenmast  n.  (Naut.) The third mast from the bow in a vessel having three or more masts; the after and shorter mast of a yawl, ketch, or dandy. Note: The definition varies slightly with the dictionary; in some dictionaries it is the last mast of a three-masted vessel; in others, it is the mast after the mainmast of a vessel of three or more masts. PJC.






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"Mizzenmast" Quotes from Famous Books



... from the Kearsarge had carried away the Alabama's colors; and now the Alabama's own last broadside actually announced her own defeat by "breaking out" the special Stars and Stripes that Winslow had run up his mizzenmast on purpose to break out in case of victory. A cannon ball had twitched the cord that held the ...
— Captains of the Civil War - A Chronicle of the Blue and the Gray, Volume 31, The - Chronicles Of America Series • William Wood

... she was of the "square rig" of her time—when apparently no use was made of the "fore-and-aft" sails which have so wholly banished the former from all vessels of her size—goes without saying. She was too large for the lateen rig, so prevalent in the Mediterranean, except upon her mizzenmast, where ...
— The Mayflower and Her Log, Complete • Azel Ames



Words linked to "Mizzenmast" :   mast, mizzen



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