The ship creaked and groaned, the mighty timbers bulged and bent under the heavy blows, the water broke over the decks, snapping the mainmast like a reed.
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Mainmast
//ˈmeɪn.mæst//
Synonyms for "mainmast" (2 found)
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22 translations across 21 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- грот-мачта noun (mainmast)
Catalan
1 entries- pal major noun (mainmast)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 主桅 noun (mainmast)
Danish
1 entries- stormast noun (mainmast)
Dutch
1 entries- grote mast noun (mainmast)
Esperanto
1 entries- ĉefmasto noun (mainmast)
Finnish
1 entries- isomasto noun (mainmast)
French
1 entries- grand mât noun (mainmast)
German
1 entries- Großmast noun (mainmast)
Hungarian
1 entries- főárbóc noun (mainmast)
Icelandic
1 entries- stórsigla noun (mainmast)
Italian
1 entries- albero maestro noun (mainmast)
Japanese
1 entries- メインマスト noun (mainmast)
Māori
1 entries- turuturu matua noun (mainmast)
Norman
1 entries- grand mât noun (mainmast)
Polish
1 entries- grotmaszt noun (mainmast)
Portuguese
2 entries- grande noun (mainmast)
- mastro grande noun (mainmast)
Russian
1 entries- грот-ма́чта noun (mainmast)
Spanish
1 entries- palo mayor noun (mainmast)
Swedish
1 entries- stormast noun (mainmast)
Welsh
1 entries- hwylbren mawr noun (mainmast)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
O, the most piteous cry of the poor souls! sometimes to see ’em, and not to see ’em; now the ship boring the moon with her main-mast, and anon swallowed with yest and froth, as you’ld thrust a cork into a hogshead.
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Then turning to his first Minister, who waited behind him with a white Staff near as tall as the Main-mast of the Royal Soveraign, he observed how contemptible a thing was human Grandeur, which could be mimicked by such diminutive Insects as I […]
Source: wiktionary
When we were in the latitude of Martinico, and near making the land, one morning we had a brisk gale of wind, and, carrying too much sail, the main-mast went over the side.
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