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Definition of Mastheading
1. masthead [v] - See also: masthead
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mastheading
Literary usage of Mastheading
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications of the Navy Records Society by Navy Records Society (Great Britain) (1906)
"A good seaman, but satirical, and too fond of mastheading. ... Fond of mastheading
for little or nothing. More of him when I come to the Edgar. ..."
2. Recollections of James Anthony Gardner: Commander R. N. (1775-1814) by James Anthony Gardner, Richard Vesey Hamilton, John Knox Laughton (1906)
"A good seaman, but satirical, and too fond of mastheading. ... Fond of mastheading
for little or nothing. More of him when I come to the Edgar. ..."
3. Representative British Dramas, Victorian and Modern by Montrose Jonas Moses (1918)
"My young grampus, I should like to have the mastheading of you in a stiff
north-wester. [Threatening him] SEAWEED. Avast there, messmate ! don't rake the ..."
4. Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Hon. Thomas L. Clingman, of by Thomas Lanier Clingman (1877)
"I saw the mate mastheading the topsails, and flattered myself that all was right.
Vain hope! I had not been on board five minutes when I saw the topsail ..."
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