Crossword-Solution: MAINMAST
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Mainmast | n. | The principal mast in a ship or other vessel. |
We have 16 clues for the answer “MAINMAST”
| Clue | Answers |
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| It's in front of a mizzen | 1 answer |
| Ketch pole | 1 answer |
| Maritime upright | 1 answer |
| Mizzen neighbor | 1 answer |
| Post at sea | 1 answer |
| Schooner or brig component | 1 answer |
| Schooner spar. | 1 answer |
| Sloop part | 1 answer |
| Pole on a schooner | 2 answers |
| Yawl pole | 2 answers |
| CALL YAWL | 10 answers |
| A SMALL MIZZEN IS AFT OF THE RUDDERPOST | 10 answers |
| BRIG ENDER | 10 answers |
| Brig British | 10 answers |
| Brig. ___ | 13 answers |
| SHIP, part of | 33 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with MAINMAST (5)
Her topmast, laden with victims, now appeared; then her spars, bending under the weight of men; and, last of all, the top of her mainmast.
When the weather permitted, the flags of the ship were hung up as an awning or screen, forming the quarter-deck into a distinct compartment; the pendant was also hoisted at the mainmast, and a large ensign flag was displayed over the stern; and lastly, the ship’s companion, or top of the staircase, was covered with the _flag proper_ of the Lighthouse Service, on which the Bible was laid.
The low moaning sound that had followed the first appearance of the storm, gave place to a sullen roar, and then, of a sudden, the thing struck the Halfmoon, ripping her remaining canvas from her as if it had been wrought from tissue paper, and with the flying canvas, spars, and cordage went the mainmast, snapping ten feet above the deck, and crashing over the starboard bow with a noise and jar that rose above the bellowing of the typhoon.
Hear him again at Copenhagen: “A shot through the mainmast knocked the splinters about; and he observed to one of his officers with a smile, ‘It is warm work, and this may be the last to any of us at any moment;’ and then, stopping short at the gangway, added, with emotion, ‘_But_, _mark you—I would not be elsewhere for thousands_.’” I must tell one more story, which has lately been made familiar to us all, and that in one of the noblest ballads in the English language.
But we fished out a piece of canvas, which we rigged up ag'in' the stump of the mainmast so that we could have somethin' that we could sit down an' grumble under.
Quotes with MAINMAST (3)
All the couples therapy and communication seminars in the world won't save you if you aren't prepared to close your eyes and hug the mainmast through a storm.
The weather had freshened almost to coldness, for the wind was coming more easterly, from the chilly currents between Tristan and the Cape; the sloth was amazed by the change; it shunned the deck and spent its time below. Jack was in his cabin, pricking the chart with less satisfaction than he could have wished: progress, slow, serious trouble with the mainmast-- unaccountable headwinds by night-- and sipping a glass of grog; Stephen was in the mizentop, teaching Bonden to wr…
Fenella Doorn watched the unfamiliar wreck of a ship ghosting into her bay. Crippled by cannon fire, she thought. What else could do such damage? The foremast was blown away, as well as half the mainmast where a jury rig clung to the jagged stump, and shot holes tattered the sails on the mizzen. And yet, to Fenella’s experienced eye the vessel had an air of defiance. Demi-cannons hulked in the shadowed gun ports. This ship was a fighter, battered but not beaten. With fight st…
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1968–2015).