Sentence example with the word 'mizzenmast'

mizzenmast

Definition n. third mast from the bow in a vessel having three or more masts

Last update: August 30, 2015


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The Confederate commissioner came on deck; and Christy looked at him with interest from behind the mizzenmast.   [Please select]

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At last a chance shot carried away her mizzenmast, and another dismounted her single great gun, killing a number of men.   [Please select]

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The third lieutenant was in the waist, and the fourth on the quarter deck, near the mizzenmast.   [Please select]

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Joseph Vincent fitted out the foremast and Thomas Briggs the mizzenmast in their lofts at the foot of the Common.   [Please select]

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The engagement lasted three hours, when the Tripoli struck, having lost her mizzenmast, and with twenty of her crew killed and thirty wounded.   [Please select]

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We could not keep the men at quarters, we struck; they took our flag too; then you came down, and he sheered off; then the mizzenmast went.   [Please select]

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