How To Use mainmast In A Sentence
- ‘Look,’ Rueben said, and turned, pointing up to the top of the mainmast, at the crow's next.
- Another struck the ship's beakhead, whistling a shred of wood high into the air, then a tearing, ripping, rustling sound made Sharpe look up to see that the Pucelle's main topgallant mast, the slenderest and highest portion of the mainmast, was falling to bring down a tangle of rigging and the main topgallant sail with it. Sharpe's Trafalgar
- By Eight Bells, we could make out the derelict clearly from the deck; and, shortly after breakfast when we had closed her within half-a-mile, we could see that somehow or other she had got terribly knocked about, her bulwarks having been carried away, as well as most of her spars and rigging, only the stump of her mainmast being left still standing, with the yard, which had parted at the slings, hanging down all a-cockbill. Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant
- The mainmast was a wreck; the shrouds on the port side having been torn from the gunwale the second day of the storm, and the entire deck was one mass of debris and wreckage. The Wonder Island Boys: The Tribesmen
- As they surged against the mainmast they broke and splashed in foam and spray which flicked into the cabins.
- She grabbed up a coil of rope on her way up the ladder and looked out over the side of the boat, then tied one end of the rope around the mainmast and dropped it through the gun port.
- At the top of the mainmast is a fighting top from which project two large spears. A Short Account of King's College Chapel
- The square sails on the mainmast are called, when eight are carried, the mainsail, lower and upper maintopsails, lower and upper maintopgallants, main-royal, main-skysail, and the moonsail. All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways
- But I found out that the vessel was not exactly a ship after all, but a sort of half schooner, half brig, -- what they call a brigantine, having two masts, a mainmast and a foremast. Cast Away in the Cold An Old Man's Story of a Young Man's Adventures, as Related by Captain John Hardy, Mariner
- She was a high-bowed, thirty-seven-foot drifter with tabernacled mainmast and a mizzen astern. THE MAIN CAGES
