Mast is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for MAST in dictionary:

VERB:
• To furnish with a mast or masts; to put the masts of in position; as, to mast a ship.
• equip with a mast
NOUN:
• a tall upright post, spar, or other structure on a ship or boat, in sailing vessels generally carrying a sail or sails.
• a tall upright post on land, especially a flagpole or a television or radio transmitter.
• the fruit of beech, oak, chestnut, and other forest trees, especially as food for pigs.
• The fruit of the oak and beech, or other forest trees; nuts; acorns.
• 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 vertical post of a derrick or crane.
• a vertical spar for supporting sails
• nuts of forest trees (as beechnuts and acorns) accumulated on the ground
• nuts of forest trees used as feed for swine
• any sturdy upright pole
• tall pole for supporting something, esp a ship's sails
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to provide with a mast (a long pole on a ship that supports the sails and rigging)
• tall pole for supporting something, esp a ship\'s sails

Words related to MAST

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How to use MAST in a sentence

• These the crew of the schooner had dragged out and made fast to a mast.
• As for the fore-top-sail, there was little of it left, the canvass having mostly blown from the yard, before the mast went.
• With his arms folded on his breast, and his eyes fastened on the placid sea, he stood motionless as the mast near which he had placed his person.
• A yard is sharp-up, when turned by the braces as far as the rigging of the mast will allow.
• There was a keg in the boat and a mast with a leg-of-mutton sail.
• We were confident that it could stand the strain, but we doubted the holding-power of the stays that held the mast.
• Flaypole and Burke were lying prostrate in a drunken stupour, and Jynxstrop was soon overpowered, and lashed tightly to the foot of the mast.
• It was more than twenty feet in length, with a cabin at the stern, a place for a mast, though there was neither mast nor sail on board.
• But if thou thyself art minded to hear, let thy company bind thee hand and foot to the mast.
• The set piece, a ship at sea, showed one mast and the captain, and then went out.
• The next moment a sea broke over her that carried the three of them, with two of the crew hanging on to the mast, which, clear of the wreck, was rapidly driven towards the shore.
• Paul induced Captain Moore also to ship his companion before the mast.
• We are well aware that there is no law for a sailor before the mast, so at times the sailor has to take the law in his own hands.
• The aspect of that poor ship, half broken, having neither mast nor sails, lying on her side like a being deprived of life, sadly grieved their hearts.
• But now I find that every man before the mast knows more than I do.
• King Christian stood beside the mast In smoke and mist.
• Behind the van something was laid out on the deck at the foot of the mast, which was lighted by the lantern.
• I had been fool enough to run away from college, thinking it a fine romantic thing to ship before the mast for a voyage round the world.
• Maoris, shipping before the mast on board whalers and traders, made some of the best seamen on the Pacific.
• I just clung to the mast, watching the other people right themselves, and laughing, when suddenly everything ceased to be funny.
• The young man was, however, in good spirits, and went up the mast in order to see if he could discover land anywhere.
• If any one trembled as the mast swayed over when the ship rolled, he was afraid to mention the fact, or to exhibit any signs of alarm.
• Moreover, it was likely enough that the ship was strained with the wrench of the falling mast.
• Following her advice he filled the ears of the men with wax and bade them bind him hand and foot to the mast.
• We used a different scheme for holding the boom to the mast.
• The ships had now so much motion as to strain the gear very much, and even to make the lower mast of the Fury bend in spite of the shores.
• In a few minutes Eben was soaked to the skin as he leaned against the mast for support.

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