mast
/mæst/ sustantivo C1En español: mástil, mastelero
- A tall, slim post or tower, usually tapering upward, used to support, for example, sails or observation platforms on a ship, the main rotor of a helicopter, flags, floodlights, meteorological instruments, or communications equipment, such as an aerial, usually supported by guy-wires (except in the case of a helicopter).
- A nonjudicial punishment ("NJP"); a disciplinary hearing under which a commanding officer studies and disposes of cases involving those under his command; a meritorious mast.
Plural masts
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Dantès continued at his post in spite of the presence of the pilot, until this manœuvre was completed, and then he added, “Half-mast the colors, and square the yards!”
Sometimes he could see for miles and miles across the still green jungle, as a man on the top of a mast can see for miles across the sea, and then the branches and leaves would lash him across the face, and he and his two guards would be almost down to earth again.
Another flash showed him four men clinging to the shattered mast and the rigging, while a fifth clung to the broken rudder.
Above the splintered mast a sail rent to tatters was waving; suddenly the ropes that still held it gave way, and it disappeared in the darkness of the night like a vast sea-bird.
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