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Definition of Mastlike
1. resembling a mast [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mastlike
Literary usage of Mastlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bookman (1911)
"In Saint Malo, the corsair city—embattle- mented, with a tall slender spire rising
mastlike from its centre—you cannot stay long because of very ancient ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris, George Grove (1875)
"Like frozen waves tho roofs go rolling down The valley steeps, but weatherworn
and brown Steeple and stack shoot mastlike toward the day. ..."
3. Hours of Exercise in the Alps by John Tyndall (1895)
"Some of the trees had exerted all their force in a vertical direction, and rose
straight, tall, and mastlike, without lateral branches. ..."
4. Potter's American Monthly (1877)
"... the sunshine seemed to have died out among the green gloom ; the golden motes
ceased to play between the .mastlike stems of the firs. ..."
5. Papers of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens by Archaeological Institute of America (1897)
"It appears probable that the round hole cut in the block occupying the centre of
the circumference was meant to hold the mastlike post which supported an ..."
6. Longman's Magazine by Charles James Longman (1897)
"... it was crowned with a grove of Scotch firs with boles that rose straight and
smooth and mastlike to a height of about eighty feet; thus, seen from afar, ..."
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