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M`AST, n. A long, round piece of timber, elevated or designed to be raised perpendicularly or nearly so, on the keel of a ship or other vessel, to which the yards,sails and rigging are attached, and by which they are supported. A mast is a single stick, formed from the trunk of a tree, or it consists of many pieces of timber united by iron bands. Masts are of several kinds, as the main-mast, fore-mast, mizzen-mast, top-mast, top-gallant-mast, &c.

M`AST, n. The fruit of the oak and beech, or other forest trees; nuts; acorns. [It has no plural.]



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M`AST, n. A long, round piece of timber, elevated or designed to be raised perpendicularly or nearly so, on the keel of a ship or other vessel, to which the yards,sails and rigging are attached, and by which they are supported. A mast is a single stick, formed from the trunk of a tree, or it consists of many pieces of timber united by iron bands. Masts are of several kinds, as the main-mast, fore-mast, mizzen-mast, top-mast, top-gallant-mast, &c.

M`AST, n. The fruit of the oak and beech, or other forest trees; nuts; acorns. [It has no plural.]


MAST, n.1 [Sax. mæst; D. G. Sw. and Dan. mast; Fr. mât, for mast; Port. masto or mastro; Sp. mastiles, masts; masteleros, top-masts; masto, a trunk, a stock in which any cion is ingrafted.]

A long, round piece of timber, elevated or designed to raised perpendicularly or nearly so, on the keel of a ship or other vessel, to which the yards, sails and rigging are attached, and by which they are supported. A mast is a single stick, formed from the trunk of a tree, or it consists of many pieces of timber united by iron bands. Masts are of several kinds, as the main-mast, fore-mast, mizzen-mast, top-mast, top-gallant-mast, &c.


MAST, n.2 [Sax. mæste, acorns, food; Goth. mats, food, meat; Ir. mais, meas, an acorn; maise, food; W. mes, acorns, a portion, a meal; mesen, an acorn. This may be the American maiz, and signify food in general, from eating, chewing, masticating, or primarily a nut kernel, or acorn, the food of the primitive tribes of men. It seems to be radically the same word as meat.]

The fruit of the oak and beech, or other forest trees; nuts; acorns. [It has no plural.]


Mast
  1. The fruit of the oak and beech, or other forest trees; nuts; acorns.

    Oak mast, and beech, . . . they eat. Chapman.

    Swine under an oak filling themselves with the mast. South.

  2. A pole, or long, strong, round piece of timber, or spar, set upright in a boat or vessel, to sustain the sails, yards, rigging, etc. A mast may also consist of several pieces of timber united by iron bands, or of a hollow pillar of iron or steel.

    The tallest pine
    Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast
    Of some great ammiral.     Milton.

    &fist] The most common general names of masts are foremast, mainmast, and mizzenmast, each of which may be made of separate spars.

  3. To furnish with a mast or masts] to put the masts of in position; as, to mast a ship.
  4. A spar or strut to which tie wires or guys are attached for stiffening purposes.
  5. The vertical post of a derrick or crane.

    Afore the mast, Before the mast. See under Afore, and Before. - - Mast coat. See under Coat. -- Mast hoop, one of a number of hoops attached to the fore edge of a boom sail, which slip on the mast as the sail is raised or lowered; also, one of the iron hoops used in making a made mast. See Made.

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Mast

M'AST, noun A long, round piece of timber, elevated or designed to be raised perpendicularly or nearly so, on the keel of a ship or other vessel, to which the yards, sails and rigging are attached, and by which they are supported. A mast is a single stick, formed from the trunk of a tree, or it consists of many pieces of timber united by iron bands. Masts are of several kinds, as the main-mast, fore-mast, mizzen-mast, top-mast, top-gallant-mast, etc.

M'AST, noun The fruit of the oak and beech, or other forest trees; nuts; acorns. [It has no plural.]

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