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Meanings of single mast in English

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Usage of single mast in English
1
It was a sailing vessel of fair size, carrying a single mast.
The Rover Boys on the Great Lakes; Or, The Secret of the Island ...
2
In the center was placed a single mast, which carried one large sail.
Famous Men of the Middle Ages
3
No; there was a European vessel, I was sure of it, with a single mast.
In the Eastern Seas
4
Far away on the southern horizon, the single mast stuck up above the blue water like a black rod.
Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate"
5
Fleets of sailing boats, carved from teakwood, each sporting a single mast of brown canvas, plied the sluggish waters.
Wizardborn
6
They carry an enormous square sail on a single mast, larger than any sail used on the greatest ships.
The Story of Paul Boyton: Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the...
7
There was a single mast.
Brisingr
8
He had a boat about twenty-five feet long by eight wide, with a single mast carrying a square sail.
Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar...
9
He saw Bankart in his blue jacket below the great, single mast and wondered what he really felt about his father.
Colors Aloft!
10
Some flags fluttered from the single mast in front, and she shattered the air with short hoarse shrieks of the whistle.
Revenge!
11
An upper yard curved in shape hung from the single mast, which terminated in a top for the look-out during a battle.
History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume...
12
Her rig, which was completed, consisted, like that of a cutter, of a mainsail and a jib carried on a single mast.
The Fur Country: Or, Seventy Degrees North Latitude
13
Notice the figure of Victory on the top of the single mast and the decoration of the mainsail with the wolf and twins.
Early European History
14
Only a mast about three miles off-justone single mast sticking up out of the white water, as thin and faint as a spider's line.
Heroes of the Goodwin Sands
15
Its single mast was rigged with a mainsail and a jib, and all of its spares and gear were stored in holds in the pontoons.
Jarka Ruus
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