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masthead

[mast-hed, mahst-] / ˈmæstˌhɛd, ˈmɑst- /


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And, yes, it does cheekily employ its own famous masthead as part of the very special effect.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

“You could still kind of make out the word Wired across the top of the masthead and something about that just blew me away,” Cooley says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026

More than a year after he bought the Times, Soon-Shiong met with masthead editors, discussing the paper’s plans over Chinese takeout.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026

And even if you can’t make the meetings, you’ll come to know your local paper’s masthead.

From Salon ● Dec. 3, 2025

He even begged a scrap of silk ribbon from a traveler for Robin to use as a pennant for the masthead.

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli

The paper published nine editions and listed 17 reporters on its early mastheads.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 20, 2023

Some of these jobs have begun to go extinct, at least on official mastheads.

From Slate ● Apr. 12, 2023

He wrote: "Like other mastheads do every day, we simply asked questions and as standard practice included a deadline for a response."

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2022

Front office mastheads are swollen with key executives.

From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2021

By midday they reached latitude 82° 24' N., and the flags were run up to the mastheads amid general rejoicing, for it was the farthest point North to which a ship had yet sailed.

From The Romance of Polar Exploration Interesting Descriptions of Arctic and Antarctic Adventure from the Earliest Time to the Voyage of the ?Discovery? by G. Firth Scott

Then came the order for the t'gallantsail, and by the time that was mastheaded, the skipper followed with orders for royals, fore and aft.

From Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate" by T. Jenkins (Thornton Jenkins) Hains

Under the lee of the stone warehouse, on the solidity of the wharf, the land, Roger Brevard watched the Nautilus while one by one the topsails were sheeted home and the yards mastheaded.

From Java Head by Joseph Hergesheimer

That boy ought to be mastheaded, and I've told Perez so more'n once.

From Cap'n Eri by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

The other sloops then mastheaded their topsails, and the schooners peaked their gaffs.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 by Various

Your yards stay mastheaded mostly by force o' habit, hey?

From Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate" by T. Jenkins (Thornton Jenkins) Hains




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