Meanings
nounmain-mast (plural main-masts)
plural main-masts
- alternativeAlternative spelling of mainmast.
[…] a small sketch of a ship sent four years ago from the Mediterranean by William, with H. M. S. Antwerp at the bottom, in letters as tall as the main-mast.
1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XVI, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 318
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