Meanings
- not comparablenauticalHaving two masts.
to the 1st to 2nd century AD.19 A double-masted Satavahana ship has also been found on a seal from the Bengal Bay area (Pargadas), dated to the 2nd century AD; this oval seal is now in the National Museum of Kolkata.
2016 June 22, Ahmed Abushouk, Mahjoob Zweiri, Interdisciplinarity in World History: Continuity and Change, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 1572 more examples
Some years ago all the owners of racing schooners were up in arms against the Wildfire, and declared she was not one, but a double-masted cutter, or some such thing, and not a fair vessel to sail in their races, merely because she had a running bowsprit and cutter’s stem.
1866, Hunt's Yachting Magazine, page 110In the tomb of a noble called Abibi, also of the IVth dynasty, there is a scene in which men are in the act of lowering the double mast (Fig. 44), and what is probably a double-masted ship under sail is found in the tomb-sculpture of a IVth dynasty noble called Ipi (Fig. 45).
1990, Somers Clarke, Reginald Engelbach, Ancient Egyptian Construction and Architecture, Courier Corporation, →ISBN, page 43Synonyms: two-masted, twin-masted
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveHaving two masts.
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