Definitions for masts

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masts mast

Spelling: [mast, mahst]

IPA: /mæst, mɑst/

Masts is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 55 anagrams from letters in masts (amsst).

Definitions for masts

noun

1. 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.
2. Also called pillar. the upright support of a jib crane.
3. any upright pole, as a support for an aerial, a post in certain cranes, etc.
4. the fruit of the oak and beech or other forest trees, used as food for hogs and other animals.

Idioms

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

verb (used with object)

1. to provide with a mast or masts.

Origin of masts

before 900; Middle English; Old English mæst; cognate with German Mast; akin to Latin mālus pole

Examples for masts

We have a mast and sail there, I see, and water in the beaker.

Bound together by mutual distrust, both sides end up lashing themselves to the mast of rigid law.

Users include the Singapore navy: What small-warship commander would turn down a 1,000-foot mast?

We were fighting a fair fight, for he had boarded the ship when the mast fell and killed him.

When Odysseus journeyed back from Troy, his men tied him to the mast of his ship when the Sirens tempted him to leave it.

Both French commanders died: Quiéret was killed as his ship was boarded, and Béhuchet was hanged from the mast of his ship.

Captain Truck hesitated, and he looked wistfully at the mast.

She see us a-wallowin' in the trough and our mast thrashin' for all it was worth.

They're so mad because they can't get at us that they're biting the mast.

The 13th Congressional District ship of state flies the Jolly David from its mast.