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shipmast|ˈʃɪpmɑːst, -æ-| Also ship's mast. [f. ship n.1 + mast n.1] The mast of a ship.
1611Rowlands Four Knaues (Percy Soc.) 30 Name any weapon..May-pole, or ship-mast, for to run a tilt. 1612Selden in Drayton's Poly-olb. To Rdr. A 2 b, I beleeue much in them as I do the finding of Hiero's Shipmast in our Mountaines. 1796H. Hunter tr. St. Pierre's Study Nat. I. 244 The Dutch have made many a vain attempt to make the fir grow at the Cape of Good Hope, in order to find a supply of ships-masts. 1842F. W. Faber Styrian Lake 307 The dark sky amid the shipmasts winking. b. attrib.
1495Naval Acc. Hen. VII (1896) 158 Parelles to a shippes⁓mast sayle. 1820Keats Isabella xvii, The hawks of ship⁓mast forests. 1837Browning Forest Thought i, The builder gazes wistfully Such noble ship-mast wood to see. 1879― Ivan Dram. Idyls 63 The carpenter, employed On a huge shipmast trunk. |