How To Use Mainmast In A Sentence
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‘Look,’ Rueben said, and turned, pointing up to the top of the mainmast, at the crow's next.
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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
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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
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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
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As they surged against the mainmast they broke and splashed in foam and spray which flicked into the cabins.
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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.
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At the top of the mainmast is a fighting top from which project two large spears.
A Short Account of King's College Chapel
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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
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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
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She was a high-bowed, thirty-seven-foot drifter with tabernacled mainmast and a mizzen astern.
THE MAIN CAGES
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The very first evening statements were whispered about to the effect that her state of disrepair is such that she has not been to her own port for nine months, and has been sailing for that time without a certificate; that her starboard shaft is partially fractured, and that to reduce the strain upon it the floats of her starboard wheel have been shortened five inches, the strain being further reduced by giving her a decided list to port; that her crank is "bandaged," that she is leaky; that her mainmast is sprung, and that with only four hours 'steaming many of her boiler tubes, even some of those put in at Auckland, had already given way.
The Hawaiian Archipelago
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The cap at the mainmast head was broken out, and sheet and downhaul pulled flat, amid a scattering rifle fire from the boats; and the
Charley's Coup
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The Frenchmen had been snatching boarding pikes from their racks about the mainmast, while others held axes or cutlasses, but one carronade forward and one aft provided a tangling crossfire that destroyed the boarding party.
Sharpe's Trafalgar
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At the dark end of the first day we returned, exhausted, to our little cove, towing the mainmast behind us.
Chapter 36
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Galilee had lashed himself to the mainmast so as not to be swept overboard.
GALILEE
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Her mainmast is 29 metres high, and she has a permanent crew of 16, assisted by 36 voyage crew and various supernumeraries.
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Tarangini is a ‘Barque’, which means she is square rigged on the fore and mainmasts and fore and aft rigged on the mizzenmast.
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The hooker needed no looking after in such weather as this, and the only individual, beside ourselves, abaft the mainmast was the helmsman.
The Castaways
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Fastened by chains to the mainmast were a number of grisly staghounds, who now began leaping and barking at me, and by the mizzen a huge puma was cramped in a little iron cage far too small even to give it turning room.
The Island of Doctor Moreau
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When I turned to look at the quarterdeck I saw Keetch there, not far from the splintered stump of the mainmast.
STONE THE CROWS, IT'S A VACUUM-CLEANER
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He had just enough time to duck down the companionway before the thing whistled over his head and clattered against the mainmast.
CORMORANT
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At sea a bonaventure was the French name for a very short mizzen mast, stepped abaft a tall mainmast—in much the same way that this young Indian lad tagged along behind the governor.
Champlain's Dream
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Berwick smacks were sloops with a single tall mainmast.
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One of them had the initial P shining between the foremast and mainmast, and G between the main mast and mizenmast.
From Lower Deck to Pulpit
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He showed Sharpe the galley beneath the forecastle, introduced him to masters-at-arms, cooks, Bosuns, Gunner's Mates, the carpenter, then offered to take Sharpe up the mainmast.
Sharpe's Trafalgar
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It was square-rigged on its foremasts and mainmasts, but used a lateen sail on the mizzen to help in tacking.
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During that crucial ten minutes I feared the wind pressure would rip the mainmast out.
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Its gun-ports were visible even at this distance, and a flag, unidentifiable, waved defiantly atop the mainmast.
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At first when sails triumphed over oars, a large square sail was rigged on the mainmast while two smaller sails fore and aft gave the ship maneuverability.
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Many of his days have been passed since then in explaining how the thing happened; of these explanations it will be sufficient to say that they were all different, and none satisfactory: and the gross fact remains that the main boom gybed, carried away the tackle, broke the mainmast some three feet above the deck and whipped it over-board.
The Wrecker
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Its gun-ports were visible even at this distance, and a flag, unidentifiable, waved defiantly atop the mainmast.
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The foremasts carried square-rigged sails, while the mainmasts carried a fore-and-aft-rigged mainsail and square-rigged top sail.
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He is by the foot of the mainmast with a haulyard in his hands as though hoisting something aloft.
The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea
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Paul did not think so; but he made no reply to the angry man, though he ordered the alleged culprit to the mainmast, which is the locality of the high court on shipboard.
Dikes and Ditches Young America in Holland and Belguim
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About midnight we lost the main topgallant sail, which is the next to the highest of five sails on the mainmast.
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Almost every man on the quarter or main-decks of the "Serapis" was killed or wounded by the united fire of the enemy; and the calamity was increased by the accidental ignition of a cartridge of powder near one of the lower deck-ports, and the flames spreading from cartridge to cartridge all the way aft, blew up the whole of the officers and people that were quartered abaft the mainmast.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria
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Now there was a veteran aboard who because his years began to disqualify him for more active work had been recently assigned duty as mainmastman in his watch, looking to the gear belayed at the rail roundabout that great spar near the deck.
Billy Budd
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These braces come down to the ship's sides, or to the heads of the masts fore and aft of those on which the yard is swung; all the mizzen-braces working on the mainmast; the maintopgallant, mainroyal and skysail braces working on the mizzenmast; and the foretopgallant and foreroyal braces working on the mainmast, as is clearly shown in our illustration.
Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891
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He saw how close to the mainmast the commodore was and grinned suddenly.
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At first when sails triumphed over oars, a large square sail was rigged on the mainmast while two smaller sails fore and aft gave the ship maneuverability.
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The foremast is the main thing to get rid of now; and, unless the sea keeps still, we'll never manage to cut that away, for it is still more under water than the mainmast was.
The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea
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The tall mast is the mainmast, the short mast is the mizzen; some ketches carry square sails on the main, some carry a topsail on the mizzen -- the distinctive mark of the ketch being that the mizzen is a pole-mast and stepped in front of the stern-post.
Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891
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When this jigger was abolished the sail retained its lateen shape, got on to the mainmast, and became what we may call a main crossjack, thereby rendering a square mainsail impossible.
Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891
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Only a few looked inhabited -- lawns bestrewn with gadgets, excavations begun with small bulldozers and abandoned, Pack or Swarm or Family flags flying from the mainmasts.
Boing Boing: January 16, 2005 - January 22, 2005 Archives
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When Columbus set sail in 1492, his own flagship was shorter than Zheng's mainmast and barely twice as long as the big man's rudder.
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Others, descending from on high, take root as soon as their extremity touches the ground, and appear like shrouds and stays supporting the mainmast of a line-of-battle ship; while others, sending out parallel, oblique, horizontal and perpendicular shoots in all directions, put you in mind of what travellers call a matted forest.
Wanderings in South America
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Dolphin pulled past them and assaulted the outside schooner, her guns taking out the mainmast.
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The mainmast groaned slightly under the strain of the wind-filled sails.
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The carpenter had turned the capstan just abaft the mainmast into a perfectly acceptable desk.
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She was a deep-waisted vessel, with three masts, the foremast and mainmast square-rigged, while the aftermast carried a long lateen-shaped sail called the mizen, with a square topsail and topgallantsail.
The Missing Ship The Log of the "Ouzel" Galley
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Like a massive tree rising right out of the floor and up through the ceiling was the mainmast.
STONE THE CROWS, IT'S A VACUUM-CLEANER
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The third hit the base of the mainmast, causing a fire in the 4in ready-use ammunition lockers.
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He'd half-expected the manrope rigging swinging below him to become stuck in the stub of the spars down there, or to snag in the port-side spar or shrouds as he swung past the centreline — then all the creature had to do was reel him in like a big fish in a net — but the momentum of his weight and twisting swung him out fifteen feet or more past and to the port side of the mainmast.
The Terror
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Above the courses come the lower topsails, above them the upper topsails, above them the lower topgallant-sails, then the upper topgallant-sails, then the royals, and, on the mainmast, the skysail, though sometimes there are skysails to all masts, and over the main skysail comes a "scraper" or moon-raker.
Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891
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The tallest mast in the middle is the mainmast, and the mast closest to the bow - that's the front of the boat - is the foremast.
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The term ship, as usually applied, has reference to a vessel furnished with a bowsprit and three masts -- a mainmast, a foremast and a mizzenmast; and these three masts are each composed of three parts, namely, a lowermast, a topmast, and a topgallant mast.
The Wonder Island Boys: Exploring the Island
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If we attempt it, Sir, we shall lose them, for a man aloft can do nothing; besides their being down would ease the ship very little; the mainmast is a sprung mast; I wish it was overboard without carrying any thing else along with it; but that can soon be done, the gale cannot last for ever; 'twill soon be daylight now.
Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities.
