main-mast
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See also: mainmast
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]main-mast (plural main-masts)
- Alternative spelling of mainmast
- 1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter XVI, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 318:
- […] 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.