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Definition of Mizzenmasts
1. mizzenmast [n] - See also: mizzenmast
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mizzenmasts
Literary usage of Mizzenmasts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1903)
"... because the heads of her lower main and mizzenmasts would have been higher
than the limit fixed by the canal company's regulations for passing under the ..."
2. Trade and Navigation Between Spain and the Indies in the Time of the Hapsburgs by Clarence Henry Haring (1918)
"... and the Castilian, which often combined a square-rigged foremast with
lateen-rigged main and mizzenmasts. Later, however, almost any vessel of about 100 ..."
3. Great Epochs in American History: Described by Famous Writers from Columbus by Francis Whiting Halsey (1912)
"Neither ship had lost a spar, but all the lower masts, especially the two
mizzenmasts, were badly wounded. The Americans at that period were fond of using ..."
4. Principles of Ocean Transportation by Emory Richard Johnson, Grover Gerhardt Huebner (1918)
"foremast square-rigged and the main- and mizzenmasts rigged fore-and-aft. A brig
is a vessel with two masts both square- rigged. A brigantine differs from ..."
5. The United Service (1905)
"... the collision of the Trenton had resulted in so demolishing the port chains
and stays of the main and mizzenmasts of the Vandalia that in less than ..."
6. Ironclads in Action: A Sketch of Naval Warfare from 1855 to 1895, with Some by Herbert Wrigley Wilson (1898)
"... six or seven knots, the Konig Wilhelm crashed into the Grosser Kurfurst, which
was steaming at nine or ten knots, between the main and mizzenmasts. ..."
7. Twenty-six Historic Ships by Frederic Stanhope Hill (1905)
"The wind was »now very light, and the Phoebe, whose main- and mizzenmasts and
main-yard were rather seriously wounded, and who had suffered a great loss of ..."
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