Definitions for mainmast

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mainmast main·mast

Spelling: [meyn-mast, -mahst; Nautical meyn-muh st]

IPA: /ˈmeɪnˌmæst, -ˌmɑst; Nautical ˈmeɪn məst/

Mainmast is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 240 anagrams from letters in mainmast (aaimmnst).

Definitions for mainmast

noun

1. the second mast from forward in any ship having two or more masts, except for a yawl, ketch, or dandy.
2. the larger forward mast of a yawl, ketch, or dandy.
3. the sole mast of any of various ships, as sloops or cutters.

Origin of mainmast

First recorded in 1475-85; main¹ + mast¹

Examples for mainmast

He stepped to the mainmast, about which the powder kegs had been stacked.

What flags are these that dumbly droop from the gaff o' the mainmast tall?

The Malays had left their stations and stood clustered by the mainmast in a silent group.

Anything belonging to the mainmast should be distinguished by the prefix main.

If you should want me for anything, hoist some kind of flag on the mainmast.

There were no sails, and the mainmast had one yard-arm, the rest had none.

All at once, by the mainmast, somebody catches him by the arm.

He snatched a cross-bow from the rack about the mainmast, fitted a shaft to it and took aim.

They crowded to the bulwarks of the waist-deck and swarmed upon the rat-lines of the mainmast.

“Is it a ship,” inquired the captain, as he began hastily to ascend the mainmast.