Meaning of "main-topmast" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF MAIN-TOPMAST

main-topmast

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MAIN-TOPMAST

Main-Topmast is a noun.

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WHAT DOES MAIN-TOPMAST MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of main-topmast in the English dictionary

The definition of main-topmast in the dictionary is the mast immediately above the mainmast.

TRANSLATION OF MAIN-TOPMAST

Find out the translation of main-topmast to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of main-topmast from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «main-topmast» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 主桅
• Translator English - Spanish: principal - mastelero
• English: main-topmast
• Translator English - Hindi: मुख्य topmast
• Translator English - Arabic: الرئيسي ، topmast
• Translator English - Russian: Основная - стояния мачты
• Translator English - Portuguese: main- topmast
• Translator English - Bengali: প্রধান-জাহাজের মাস্তল
• Translator English - French: principal de perroquet
• Translator English - Malay: Main-topmast
• Translator English - German: Haupt - topping
• Translator English - Japanese: メイントップマスト
• Translator English - Korean: 메인 오리
• Translator English - Javanese: Utama-topmast
• Translator English - Vietnamese: chính cột buồm ở trên cao
• Translator English - Tamil: முக்கிய உச்சப் பாய்மரம்
• Translator English - Marathi: मुख्य टॉपमेस्ट
• Translator English - Turkish: Ana-direk mesafesi
• Translator English - Italian: main- topmast
• Translator English - Polish: kaczka głównego
• Translator English - Ukrainian: Основна - стояння щогли
• Translator English - Romanian: principal - arbore gabier
• Translator English - Greek: main- επιστηλίου
• Translator English - Afrikaans: hoof - steng
• Translator English - Swedish: main - Stångens
• Translator English - Norwegian: main - Topmast

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MAIN-TOPMAST»

Discover the use of main-topmast in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to main-topmast and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

The Young Sea Officer's Sheet Anchor; or, a Key to the ...

The MAIN TOPMAST STAYSAIL, Fig. 339, and all the Staysails abaft the Fore- Mast (except the Main Staysail), have a fore Leech which is called the Bunt, lined with an additional Cloth; but in the Mer. chant Service, a Cloth of stronger Canvas  ...

Darcy LEVER (of Pontefract.), 1819

Wooden Ship-Building

First published in 1919, this reprint helps you relive the glory days of sailing.

Charles Desmond, 1997

A treatise on marine architecture: containing the theory and ...

The square of the girth of the Main-stay is l-3d of the register tonnage — the Fore- stay 3-8ths — the Mizen-stay l-8th — the Main-Topmast-stay l-6th — the Fore- topmast- stay l-5th — the Mizen-topmast-stay 1-1 8th of ditto. To find the girths of  ...

‎1830

The Rigging of Ships: in the Days of the Spritsail Topmast, ...

.5 of the increased topmasts. In foreign ships the same thing probably happened. At any rate something be— tween .4 and .5 will be about right. The mizzen topmast is best calculated from the main topmast rather than from its own lower mast.

R. C. Anderson, 2012

The seaman's friend

Fore skysail mast. Main mast. Main topmast. Main topgallant mast. Main royal mast. Main skysail mast. Mizzen mast. Mizzen topmast. Mizzen topgallant mast. Mizzen royal mast. Mizzen skysail mast. Fore spencer gaff. Main spencer gun*.

Richard Henry Dana, 1841

Nicolaes Witsen and Shipbuilding in the Dutch Golden Age

... Main-topmast: Length = 'Amainmast Thickness = 5/6 mast top Mizzen topmast: Length = 1/1 main-topmast Thickness = not specified Spritsail topmast: Length = 1/; bowsprit+ 2 feet Thickness = not specified Main-topgallant mast: Length = 1/; ...

A. J. Hoving, Diederick Wildeman, 2012

Shipwreck by lightning: Papers relative to Harris lightning ...

30m. , main-topmast and mainmast shivered ; fore-topmast split ; ship set on fire in various parts of mast and rigging ; three men knocked off the mast-head, two killed ; obliged to cut away the mainmast. See No. IV. 110. Lynx 10. April 1840.

Sir William Snow Harris, 1853

The Ship Model Builder's Assistant

Pair Fore shrouds n$6 10 Main shrouds 1 1% 1 1 Mizzen shrouds g 7 Fore stay 17 Main stay 18 Mizzen stay 12 Fore spring stay 12% Main spring stay 14 Fore- topmast shrouds 6% 6 Main-topmast shrouds 6% 7 Mizzen-topmast shrouds 5H 5 ...

Charles G. Davis, 2012

Constitution - All Sails Up and Flying

The Excerpt gives a choice here, or one can chose to splice or hitch the jibstay to the collar of the topmast stay. Note: The jibstay set up later after the jib boom has been installed. The sizes of the main topmast preventer stay and main topmast ...

Olof A. Eriksen, 2009

The London encyclopaedia: or Universal dictionary of ...

Mizen-topmast, three-fourths of the main-topmast. In sloops, the mizen-topmast is five-sevenths of the main-topmast. Topgallant-masts, one-half the length of the topmast. Bowsprits, of eighty-gun ships and upwards, seven-elevenths of their ...

‎1829