Masting - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: mastingMastful
Abounding in mast producing mast in abundance as the mastful forest a mastful chestnut...
Masted
Furnished with a mast or masts chiefly in composition as a three masted schooner...
Masting
The act or process of putting a mast or masts into a vessel also the scientific principles which determine the position of masts and the mechanical methods of placing them...
Half mast
A point some distance below the top of a mast or staff as a flag a half mast a token of mourning etc...
Jury mast
A temporary mast in place of one that has been carried away or broken...
Schooner
Originally a small sharp built vessel with two masts and fore and aft rig Sometimes it carried square topsails on one or both masts and was called a topsail schooner About 1840 longer vessels with three masts fore and aft rigged came into use and since that time vessels with four masts and even with six masts so rigged are built Schooners with more than two masts are designated three masted schooners four masted schooners etc See Illustration in Appendix...
Dismast
To deprive of a mast of masts to break and carry away the masts from as a storm dismasted the ship...
Fore topmast
The mast erected at the head of the foremast and at the head of which stands the fore topgallant mast the mast next above the foremast See Ship...
Mizzenmast
the third mast from the bow in a vessel having three or more masts the after and shorter mast of a yawl ketch or dandy...
Masthead
The top or head of a mast the part of a mast above the hounds...
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