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Definition of Masthead
1. Noun. A listing printed in all issues of a newspaper or magazine (usually on the editorial page) that gives the name of the publication and the names of the editorial staff, etc..
2. Noun. The title of a newspaper or magazine; usually printed on the front page and on the editorial page.
3. Noun. The head or top of a mast.
Definition of Masthead
1. n. The top or head of a mast; the part of a mast above the hounds.
2. v. t. To cause to go to the masthead as a punishment.
Definition of Masthead
1. Noun. (nautical) The top of a mast. ¹
2. Noun. (American English) A list of a newspaper or other periodical's main staff, contributing writers, publisher, circulation, advertising rates etc. ¹
3. Noun. (U.K.) The title (normally in a large and distinctive font) of a newspaper at the top of the front page ¹
4. Verb. (nautical transitive) To send to the masthead as a punishment. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Masthead
1. to raise to the top of a mast [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Masthead
Literary usage of Masthead
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Navigation Rules, International-Inland by D A Appelbaum (1998)
"When however a masthead light is carried in addition to sidelights and a Sternlight
or the all-round light prescribed in rule 23(c)(i) is carried in ..."
2. Hydrographical Surveying: A Description of Means and Methods Employed in by William James Lloyd Wharton (1882)
"BM = 6 = Height of telescope above masthead. FIG 54. ... BAM = B = Depression of
masthead. BAC = A = Depression of lower point observed. ..."
3. Thomas Nast: His Period and His Pictures by Albert Bigelow Paine (1904)
"Certainly there THE "RAO" (BABY) was less of bitterness than in 1872, and the
pic- AT THE masthead tures were drawn and i}ie ..."
4. The Practice in Courts of Justice in England and the United States by Conway Robinson (1855)
"How far the right of action is affected by there being no light at the masthead.
The supreme court of Massachusetts has said, it knows of no positive rule ..."
5. A Dictionary of American Politics: Comprising Accounts of Political Parties by Everit Brown, Albert Strauss (1892)
"The words were inscribed on the blue pennant that Commodore Oliver H. Perry carried
at his masthead during the battle of Lake Erie later in the same year. ..."
6. The Corinthian Yachtsman, Or, Hints on Yachtingby Tyrrel E. Biddle by Tyrrel E. Biddle (1881)
"Best Copper Side Lamps, fitted with Patent Prismatic Out Lenses, £6 10s.; Anchor
Lamp £2 15s.; Steamer's masthead do. £5 ; or Lamps with the same kind of ..."
7. Cyclopedia of Law and Procedure by William Mack, Howard Pervear Nash (1903)
"(в) Steam - Vessels —masthead Light. A steam-vessel when under way must carry on
or in front of the foremast, or if a vessel without a foremast, ..."
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