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Definition of Mizenmasts
1. mizenmast [n] - See also: mizenmast
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mizenmasts
Literary usage of Mizenmasts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Shipwreck by Lightning: Papers Relative to Harris Lightning Conductors by William Snow Harris (1853)
"... hi about once in 20 tunes; on the main and mizenmasts together, once in 40
times ; on all the masts, once in about 200 times. ..."
2. The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: With a Life of the by Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1859)
"Upon these masts hang ten sails, and when there be two mizenmasts, ... If there
be two mizenmasts, the hinder- most sails are less than the foremast about ..."
3. Annals of the Wars of the Eighteenth Century: Compiled from the Most by Edward Cust (1862)
"Fire was accordingly opened upon the " Defence " and the " Swiftsure," who
retaliated with such effect that both the main and mizenmasts of the " Franklin ..."
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