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mizzenmast
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun mizzenmast has 1 sense
- mizzenmast(n = noun.artifact) mizen, mizenmast, mizzen - third mast from the bow in a vessel having three or more masts; the after and shorter mast of a yawl, ketch, or dandy; Array is a kind of mast
CIDE DICTIONARY
mizzenmast, n.
the third mast from the bow in a vessel having three or more masts; the after and shorter mast of a yawl, ketch, or dandy.
"The definition varies slightly with the dictionary; in some dictionaries it is the last mast of a three-masted vessel; in others, it is the mast after the mainmast of a vessel of three or more masts. PJC."
[1913 Webster]
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