mainmast heads
mainmast heads is the plural of mainmast head.
Meaning of mainmast head
Noun
mainmast head (plural mainmast heads)
- The top of a sailing ship’s mainmast.
- What early philosophic hours he keeps,
How regular his meals, how sound he sleeps!
Not sounder he that on the mainmast head,
While morning kindles with a windy red,
Begins a long look-out for distant land,
Nor quits till evening-watch his giddy stand,
Then swift descending with a seaman’s...1782, William Cowper, “Retirement”, in Poems, London: J. Johnson, page 280
- What early philosophic hours he keeps,
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