two-masted

English

Adjective

two-masted (not comparable)

  1. (nautical) Having two masts.
    Synonyms: twin-masted, double-masted
    • 1851, Johann Georg Heck, Iconographic Encyclopaedia of Science, Literature, and Art, page 734:
      Galliots are two-masted. They carry masts and sails like brigs, only the fore-mast is the highest.
    • 1901, United States. Life-Saving Service, Annual Report of the United States Life-Saving Service, page 196:
      A two-masted schooner was warned away from the shore during the first watch by the Coston light of the station patrol.
    • 1989, C. Patrick Labadie, Submerged Cultural Resources Study: Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, page 162:
      The two-masted schooner ORIOLE (1857) was sunk in a collision with a sidewheeler ILLINOIS about 8 miles north of the Pictured Rocks, carrying iron ore. Twelve crewmen were lost, one survived.
    • 2011 March 30, Kaushik Roy, War, Culture and Society in Early Modern South Asia, 1740-1849, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 17:
      The two-masted galivat, by comparison, was about 70 tons. Kanhoji also possessed ghurabs (or grabs) which were equivalent to frigates.

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