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mast

noun as in spar

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I’m straining to see ahead and make sure I don’t hit a ship’s mast.

Its square base contains weights so it doesn’t tip over when lifting heavy boxes, and it “sees” its surroundings using cameras and sensors mounted on a mast that’s separate from its lifting arm.

There is no rear propellor in the traditional sense, and it has no need of a sail, which is the rectangular chimney-like structure that sits atop every submarine, because the direct-view periscope has been replaced by camera-equipped optronic masts.

As a ship sails away from harbor, noted Sacrobosco, a lookout at the top of the mast will still be able to see land long after the sailors on deck have lost sight of it.

From Time

This has led some people to set telecom masts on fire—there were at least 140 arson attacks in the first half of the year—and to threaten the engineers who deploy 5G infrastructure.

From Fortune

Bound together by mutual distrust, both sides end up lashing themselves to the mast of rigid law.

The failure to fly a flag at half mast was widely interpreted as an expression of disrespect.

Outside, somebody had taken care to lower the flags to half-mast.

Users include the Singapore navy: What small-warship commander would turn down a 1,000-foot mast?

When Odysseus journeyed back from Troy, his men tied him to the mast of his ship when the Sirens tempted him to leave it.

"This organized conspiracy on your part," the capstan gurgled, taking his cue from the mast.

Here and there, but far away, a mast or sail rose above the level surface of the marsh.

I also put entirely new spars into her, and there stands her old mast.

The man was raving mad, and the captain was obliged to have him bound hand and foot, and chained to the mast.

While it lasted flashes of lightning frequently played around the mast-top, occasioned by electricity.

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On this page you'll find 12 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to mast, such as: pole, post, timber, and trunk.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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