Definitions
Vertical spar or pole that supports sails or rigging.
Word origin
From Middle English mast, from Old English mæst (“mast”), from Proto-West Germanic *mast, from Proto-Germanic *mastaz (“mast, sail-pole”), from Proto-Indo-European *mazdos (“pole, mast”).
Used in a sentence
“She ſhut them ſtraight in ſties; and gaue them meate / Oke-maſt, and beech, and Cornell fruite, they eate, […]”
“The Winter comes, and then the falling Maſt, / For greedy Swine, provides a full repaſt.”
“[T]hey feed and grovel like Swine under an Oak, filling themſelves with the Maſt, but never ſo much as looking up, either to the Bows that bore, or the Hands that ſhook it down.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Sail support pole”4 letters
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