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triple-masted

triple-masted adjective: having three masts.

Adjective

triple-masted (not comparable)

  1. Having three masts.
    • […] E'en now
      He gnaws with keen exasperated tooth
      The rock that holds him shorebound to his seat,
      Buffets the pier and basis of the cliff,
      Seizes the tilting triple-masted bark,
      Light as a feather in his pow'rful grasp,
      Kindles her sleeping thunder, and enjoys
      Her frequent flashes of nocturnal...1800, The Monthly Review; or Literary Journal, Enlarged: From September to December, inclusive, M,DCCC. With an Appendix., volume XXXIII, page 284
    • Just off the coast, to the right, a fine triple-masted Dutch cog of the sixteenth century heads for the open sea, its fore and aft sails already unfurled. The sailors are visible in the rigging, about to unfurl the remaining sails.2010 October 19, Piero Boitani, Professor of Comparative Literature Piero Boitani, Winged Words: Flight in Poetry and History, ReadHowYouWant.com, →ISBN, page 251
    Synonyms:
    three-masted

Synonyms of triple-masted

  • three-masted

Questions about triple-masted

What does triple-masted mean?
Triple-masted means having three masts.
What part of speech is triple-masted?
Triple-masted is an adjective.

Words near triple-masted in the dictionary

  1. triple-header
  2. triple-headers
  3. triple-jumper
  4. triple-jumpers
  5. triple-lock
  6. triple-masted
  7. triple-negative
  8. Triple-O
  9. triple-SIM
  10. triple-stranded
  11. triple-tail

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