Meanings
- not comparableHaving three masts.
The schooner Onward, a threemasted vessel, owned by C. P. Doe & Co., of San Francisco, may become a total wreck as a result of going ashore on the beach just south of Coquille bar on February 25.
1905 March 1, “Pacific Coast Marine”, in Coast Seamen's Journal, volume 18, number 23, page 52 more examples
Elijah, skiff, light crumpled throwaway, sailed eastward by flanks of ships and trawlers, amid an archipelago of corks, beyond new Wapping street past Benson’s ferry, and by the threemasted schooner Rosevean from Bridgwater with bricks.
1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 10: Wandering Rocks]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], pages 239–240There was a duke in a black hat with a red plume. There was his duchess, wearing pearls and a fathered velvet gown. Rembrandt had painted them, and they hung in the diningroom. There was a crest, a threemasted ship, sails unfurled, pennants flying.
1936 June 5, Margaret Bell Houston, “Gypsy Weather”, in The Lincoln Star, volume 34, page 2Synonyms: three-masted, triple-masted
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveHaving three masts.
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