Meanings of great masts in English

The trees, thick-set and tall, reminded Jean of great masts.

In the broad path made by the moon hung ghostly sails, rose great masts, twinkled myriads of lights.

How huge they are, what lines of cannon, what great masts, as tall and as straight as palm-trees!

The morning was cold, and the trees were swaying and creaking like great masts at sea beneath a whipping wind.

Helicopters and private planes circled like gnats and dragonflies, turning circles and figure-eights in astonishing tours between the great masts and pylons.

I had never at night looked up at the great masts, and seen them swing, like a pendulum reversed, between me and the stars.

As soon as he did this, the three great masts dropped, telescoping into themselves with a soft hiss, until they were flush with the deck.