Definitions for topmasts

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topmasts top·mast

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

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

Topmasts is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 231 anagrams from letters in topmasts (amopsstt).

Definitions for topmasts

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 topmasts

First recorded in 1475-85; top¹ + mast¹

Examples for topmasts

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

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

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.

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

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?

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

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

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