Definitions for masting

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masting mast·ing

Spelling: [mas-ting, mah-sting]

IPA: /ˈmæs tɪŋ, ˈmɑ stɪŋ/

Masting is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 250 anagrams from letters in masting (agimnst).

Definitions for masting

noun

1. the masts of a ship, taken as a whole.
2. the technique, act, or process of placing masts in sailing ships.
3. Nautical. a spar or structure rising above the hull and upper portions of a ship or boat to hold sails, spars, rigging, booms, signals, etc., at some point on the fore-and-aft line, as a foremast or mainmast. any of a number of individual spars composing such a structure, as a topmast supported on trestletrees at the head of a lower mast. any of various portions of a single spar that are beside particular sails, as a top-gallant mast and royal mast formed as a single spar.
4. Also called pillar. the upright support of a jib crane.
5. any upright pole, as a support for an aerial, a post in certain cranes, etc.

Idioms

1. before the mast, Nautical. as an unlicensed sailor:

verb (used with object)

1. to provide with a mast or masts.

Origin of masting

First recorded in 1620-30; mast¹ + -ing¹

Examples for masting

Well, do you remember licking a young fellow there for jerking the roof log out of the hotel with your masting team of oxen?

The consideration of the “masting” industry will be taken up in the next chapter.

There are also hulks for convicts, and for masting, as sheer-hulk.

Sheer′-hulk, an old dismasted ship with a pair of sheers mounted on it for masting ships; Sheer′-leg, one of the spars.

The peculiar style of her masting had drawn his attention to her.

The proportions for the length of spars are based upon the masting rules given by M'Kay in 1839.

Money too began to circulate more freely, owing to the development of the masting industry.

I do not know how far the masting was consonant to his wishes.

The masting business was a very important one in the early days of New Brunswick.

The masting business was, however, carried on by Hazen, White and Peabody for several years longer.