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▪ I. mastless, a.1|ˈmɑːstlɪs, -æ-|
[f. mast n.1 + -less.]
Without a mast or masts.
1593T. Watson Tears of Fancie liii. Poems (Arb.) 205 Like a mastles shipe at seas I wander. 1624Heywood Gunaik. v. 258 [Perseus] whom Acrisius caused with his mother to be sent to sea in a mastlesse boat. 1849Rock Ch. of Fathers II. 495 The mastless vessel..crept softly..up the stream. 1884Pall Mall G. 16 Oct. 1/2 Our mastless ironclads lie like hulks on the water, incapable of motion or direction without coal.
▪ II. mastless, a.2 rare—1.|ˈmɑːstlɪs, -æ-|
[f. mast n.2 + -less.]
Without mast, without acorns.
1700Dryden Pal. & Arcite iii. 208 A crown of mastless oak adorn'd her head. |