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mastheading

mastheading is the present participle and gerund of masthead.

Meaning of masthead

Verb

masthead (third-person singular simple present mastheads, present participle mastheading, simple past and past participle mastheaded)

  1. (transitive) To send to the masthead as a punishment.
    • “I was mast-headed, sir.”
      “Mast-headed! how - for what?”1838, Frederick Marryat, Rattlin the Reefer
  2. (transitive) To furnish (a newspaper) with a masthead.
    • It was mastheaded as "Palatka's Only Independent Home-Owned Newspaper."1991, John Costello, Ten Days to Destiny, page 542

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Questions about mastheading

What is mastheading the present participle and gerund of?
Mastheading is the present participle and gerund of masthead.

Words near mastheading in the dictionary

  1. mastery learning
  2. masthead
  3. masthead sloop
  4. masthead sloops
  5. mastheaded
  6. mastheading
  7. mastheads
  8. masthouse
  9. masthouses
  10. mastic
  11. Mastic Beach

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mastheading (page history and authors); masthead (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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