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Definition of Mastheaded
1. masthead [v] - See also: masthead
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mastheaded
Literary usage of Mastheaded
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of Yacht and Boat Sailing by Dixon Kemp, Brooke Heckstall-Smith (1900)
"Flags should always he mastheaded before ... them and should be mastheaded before
hauling them down. Saluting with the ensign at half-mast should he done by ..."
2. A Cuban Expedition by J. H. Bloomfield (1896)
"The main - topsail was next mastheaded, and the yard braced by, and then again
came the order to man the windlass once again. The chain comes in slowly for ..."
3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"In a minute the flag, jack down, was mastheaded, and fluttering its fair folds
upon the ... The next morning I was regularly mastheaded. Marryat, Frank . ..."
4. The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses by Robert Louis Stevenson (1905)
"At that level, it split into two massive boughs; and in the fork, like a mastheaded
seaman, there stood a man in a green tabard, spying far and wide. ..."
5. Words and Their Ways in English Speech by James Bradstreet Greenough, George Lyman Kittredge (1901)
"Indeed, a whole phrase may be used as a verb : to blackball, to copperbottom,
mastheaded. Conversely are found the nouns: a ..."
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