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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Mast \Mast\, n. (A[89]ronautics) A spar or strut to which tie wires or guys are attached for stiffening purposes. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Mast \Mast\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Masted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Masting}.] To furnish with a mast or masts; to put the masts of in position; as, to mast a ship. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Mast \Mast\, n. [AS. m[91]st, fem.; akin to G. mast, and E. meat. See {Meat}.] 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. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Mast \Mast\, n. [AS. m[91]st, masc.; akin to D., G., Dan., & Sw. mast, Icel. mastr, and perh. to L. malus.] 1. (Naut.) 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. | |
