shipmastn.
/ˈʃɪpmɑːst//ˈʃɪpmast/ a. The mast of a ship.
ΚΠ
1611 S. Rowlands Four Knaves (Percy Soc.) 30 Name any weapon..May-pole, or ship-mast, for to run a tilt.
1612 J. Selden in M. Drayton Poly-olbion Pref. sig. A2v I beleeue much in them as I do the finding of Hiero's Shipmast in our Mountaines.
1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature 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.
1842 F. W. Faber Styrian Lake 307 The dark sky amid the shipmasts winking.
b. attributive.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > spar > [noun] > mast
masteOE
pole?c1450
shipmast1495
mast-pole1601
pine1769
1495 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 158 Parelles to a shippes~mast sayle.
1820 J. Keats Isabella in Lamia & Other Poems 57 The hawks of ship-mast forests.
1837 R. Browning Forest Thought i The builder gazes wistfully Such noble ship-mast wood to see.
1879 R. Browning Ivan Ivanovitch in Idyls I. Dramatic Idyls 63 The carpenter, employed On a huge shipmast trunk.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
<
n.1495