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| Main Entry: |
mast
 [mast, mahst] 
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | spar |
| Synonyms: | pole, post, timber, trunk |
| Main Entry: | pillar |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | column of building, or freestanding column |
| Synonyms: | colonnade, mast, obelisk, pedestal, pier, pilaster, piling, post, prop, shaft, stanchion, support, tower, upright |
| Main Entry: | pole |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bar, post |
| Synonyms: | beam, extremity, flagpole, flagstaff, leg, mast, pile, plank, rod, shaft, spar, staff, stake, standard, stave, stick, stilt, stud, terminus |
Example Sentences
- Buy a mast or pickup buoy at a ship's chandlery store.
- The insurmountable problem in each case proved to be the mast.
- When the large ship is raised, sea gulls can be seen to fly through the mast.
| Main Entry: | post |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | upright support |
| Synonyms: | column, doorpost, leg, mast, newel, pale, palisade, panel, pedestal, picket, pile, pillar, pole, prop, rail, shaft, stake, standard, stilt, stock, stud |
| Main Entry: | stick |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pole, often wooden |
| Synonyms: | bar, bat, baton, billet, birch, bludgeon, board, branch, cane, club, cudgel, drumstick, ferrule, ingot, mast, rod, rule, ruler, shoot, slab, slat, staff, stake, stalk, stave, stem, strip, switch, timber, twig, wand, wedge |
| Main Entry: | timber |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trees, wood |
| Synonyms: | balk, beam, board, boom, club, forest, frame, girder, grove, hardwood, log, mast, plank, pole, rafter, rib, stake, timberland, weald, woodland, woodlot, woods |
| Notes: | what American call lumber, Britons call timber; timbre refers to the quality of sound timber refers to cut wood and to one's qualification for a position; timbre refers to the quality of sound |
| Main Entry: | tower |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | very high building or building part |
| Synonyms: | belfry, castle, citadel, cloud buster, column, fort, fortification, fortress, high rise, keep, lookout, mast, minaret, monolith, obelisk, pillar, refuge, skyscraper, spire, steeple, stronghold, turret |
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