Definitions for topmast

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topmast top·mast

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

IPA: /ˈtɒpˌmæst, -ˌmɑst; Nautical ˈtɒp məst/

Topmast is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 182 anagrams from letters in topmast (amopstt).

Definitions for topmast

noun

1. the mast next above a lower mast, usually formed as a separate spar from the lower mast and used to support the yards or rigging of a topsail or topsails.

Origin of topmast

First recorded in 1475-85; top¹ + mast¹

Examples for topmast

We can carry away a topmast, and make a new one out of the hand-mast at sea.

“Yes,” replied the man after a pause in ascending the topmast shrouds.

Suppose you send that topmast down in the morning and generally overhaul.

Now, if we could but get a fresh spar for a topmast, we should soon be all ataunto.

The bushmen clung in the rigging, too witless to watch out for the topmast.

The practice of dividing it into lower, and upper or topmast, was introduced.

The captain took up the receiver, which communicated with the topmast.

At first the two were fastened firmly, and the topmast could not be lowered.

Canst tell a ship's topmast from a squirrel if one should heave in sight?

“Clear away the wreck of the topmast, my lads,” exclaimed the master.