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Definition of Mastheads
1. masthead [v] - See also: masthead
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mastheads
Literary usage of Mastheads
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Hoisting the national colors at the mastheads and at the peak is, perhaps, the
simplest form of dressing a ship. Additional flags, usually those of the ..."
2. Life and Adventure in the South Pacific by Jones (1861)
"mastheads.—The first Whale.— "There she blows!"—All hands excited.—Lowering the
Boats.— " Pull, every man of you."—A Fisherman's Luck.—Whales again. ..."
3. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"In addition the national colors are hoisted at the mastheads and aft, and jack
forward, as before. Should the dressing be a courtesy to a foreign government ..."
4. Seamanship: Comp. from Various Authorities, and Illustrated with Numerous by Stephen Bleecker Luce (1877)
"As the mastheads got below the sheer-heads on the wharf, the relieving tackles
from the sheer-heads were hooked to stout straps around the mastheads ..."
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