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Definition of Mainmasts
1. mainmast [n] - See also: mainmast
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mainmasts
Literary usage of Mainmasts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications of the Navy Records Society by Navy Records Society (Great Britain) (1908)
"For instance, if they were drawn up in a line NE and SW all their mainmasts when
about are to bear on those points of the compass from each other, ..."
2. Treatise on Optics by David Brewster, Alexander Dallas Bache (1854)
"... at last completed, with the mainmasts in contact . When the ship descended
still lower, the image receded from the ship, but no second image was seen. ..."
3. Signals and Instructions, 1776-1794: With Addenda to Vol. 29 by Julian Stafford Corbett, Great Britain Royal Navy (1908)
"For instance, if they were drawn up in a line NE and SW all their mainmasts when
about are to bear on those points of the compass from each other, ..."
4. Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and (1823)
"... settle from the beams three or lour inches, and their mainmasts settle so much
as to oblige them to set up the main rigging when rolling hard at sea, ..."
5. Report of the Delegates from the Following Societies, Viz.: Meteorological by George James Symons, Royal meteorological society, London (1882)
"... were struck although the mainmasts had lightning rods ... and one where the
mizen was struck though the fore and mainmasts were protected. ..."
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