jury mast

noun

An apparatus to support the trunk and head in cases of spinal disease.

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Meanings

nounjury mast (plural jury masts)

plural jury masts

  1. alternativenauticalAlternative form of jurymast.

    [P]erhaps the Jury Masts may just serve to carry me into Harbour, (as they have done,) and then the ship is to sink:—very likely, for such events happen perpetually.

    1787 October 11, Hester Thrale Piozzi, Thraliana
  2. medicineAn apparatus to support the trunk and head in cases of spinal disease.
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Chicago

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