Meaning of triple-masted | Babel Free

Definitions

Having three masts.

not-comparable

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Examples

“[…] 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 woe. […]”

“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.”

“If they had looked a little harder, the couple would have⟳ seen a square-rig, triple-masted clipper go by that was built in the nineteenth century. Nobody sails these kinds ofvessels anymore.”

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