1857 13 Feb. 204/1 Improvements in..mast-hoops, jib hanks, and jib and other travellers.
1883 48 Storm trysails..[have] cringles stuck in the mast..instead of the grommets worked in the sail to seize it to the mast-hoops.
1935 ‘H. MacDiarmid’ tr. A. MacDonald 9 Bless our mast-hoops and our sail-yards And our masts and all our ropes.