Topmast

Definition: Topmast

Topmast

Noun

1. The mast next above a lower mast and topmost in a fore-and-aft rig.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "topmast" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1611. (references)

Transportation

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Crosswords: Topmast

Books

• The Rigging of Ships in the Days of the Spritsail Topmast 1600-1720 (reference)

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Crewmen on the flight deck, looking aft toward the carrier's island during raids on the Marshall Islands, November-December 1943. Note crane and other features on and around the island. Radar antennas atop the foremast include "SC" (larger antenna, in front); "SG" (small antenna, in middle). A "YE" homing beacon antenna is mounted on the topmast. Large radar antenna behind the island is a "SK". Credit: NAVY.

Photographed prior to the outbreak of the First World War, possibly while in the Mediterranean. By this time she had been fitted with shields for the 12-pounder guns atop her forward 12-inch gun turret and her main topmast had been eliminated. Small craft in the right foreground appears to be a Mediterranean type. Credit: NAVY.

Shamrock I with broken topmast. Credit: Library of Congress.

Rose Dorothea, with broken topmast in first [?] Fishermen's Race for Lipton Cup. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Expressions using "topmast": Fore topmast ♦ main topmast. Additional references.

Ending with "topmast": fore-topmast, main-topmast.

Albanian

pjesë e sipërme e direkut kryesor, direk i sipërm. (various references)

Arabic 

‏الصاري (spar). (various references)

Bulgarian 

стенга. (various references)

Czech

hlavní stìžeò. (various references)

Danish

maersestang. (various references)

Dutch

marssteng. (various references)

French

mât de hune. (various references)

German

Topp (head, masthead), Strenge (absoluteness, astringence, astringences, austerity, hardness, harshness, intenseness, intensity, pungency, rigidity, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, severeness, severity, sterness, sternness, stiffness, strictness, stringency, stringently, tightness), Marsstaenge. (various references)

Greek 

επιστύλιο ιστού, επιστήλιο (architrave), τσιμπούκι (pipe). (various references)

Hebrew 

תורן עלי. (various references)

Hungarian

árbocsudár (topgallant mast). (various references)

Italian

severit� (astringence, astringences, austerity, harshness, severity, sternness, strictness, stringency), alberetto di gabbia. (various references)

Manx

croan mullee. (various references)

Pig Latin

opmasttay.(various references)

Portuguese

mastaréu da gávea. (various references)

Romanian

catarg (mast, stick). (various references)

Russian 

стеньга. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nastavak jarbola. (various references)

Spanish

tope (buffer, buffer stop, bumper guard, bumping post, ceiling, check, lock, masthead, stop, target, top), mastelero de gavia, aspereza (abruptness, acerbity, acridness, asperity, astringence, astringences, harshness, rawness, roughness, scragginess, sharpness, sourness, surliness). (various references)

Swedish

märsstång. (various references)

Turkish

gabya çubuğu. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "topmast": topmasts. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Topmast" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: tempast, Tomassi, tophat. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: atoms, matts, moats, motts, stamp, stoat, stoma, stomp, stopt, tamps, toast.

-3 letters: amps, atom, atop, maps, mast, mats, matt, moas, moat, mops, most, mots, mott, oast, oats, opts, pams, past, pats, poms, post, pots, samp, soap, soma, spam, spat, spot, stat, stoa, stop, tamp, tams, taos, taps, tats, toms, tops, tost, tots.

+1 letter: topmasts.

+2 letters: asymptote, palmettos.

+3 letters: asymptotes, asymptotic, compactest, mouthparts, palmettoes, patriotism, postatomic, postimpact, postmaster, postmating, postpartum, prostatism, somatotype, stomatopod.

+4 letters: amputations, comparatist, compatriots, diplomatist, imputations, pantomimist, patriotisms, petrolatums, portamentos, postmarital, postmasters, prostatisms, somatotypes, stomatopods, symptomatic, taphonomist, temptations.

+5 letters: antinepotism, appointments, asymptomatic, comparatists, compartments, computations, contemplates, diplomatists, gametophytes, impartations, impetrations, importations, mountaintops, optimalities, optimisation, pantomimists, permutations, portmanteaus, postromantic, postvagotomy, protomartyrs, somatotropin, spermatocyte, stapedectomy, taphonomists, trampolinist.