three-masted

• threemasted

three-masted (not comparable)

1. (nautical) Having three masts.

   Synonym: triple-masted

   • 1893, Meriwether Lewis; Elliott Coues, History of the Expedition Under the Command of Lewis and Clark: To the Sources of the Missouri River, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean, Performed During the Years 1804–5–6, by Order of the Government of the United States, page 790:

     The others are: Youens, who comes also in a three-masted vessel, and is a trader; Tallamon, in a three-masted vessel, but is not a trader; Callalamet, in a ship of the same size; he is a trader and they say has a wooden leg […]

   • 2002 September 1, Lynn M. Turner, Three Cuts of Courage, Hard Shell Word Factory, →ISBN, page 34:

     Already a dozen ships waited within: three-masted barquentine, two-masted brigs, and a handful of smaller sloops and schooners. With a rattle and bang, the anchor splashed into the Halifax Harbour waters.

   • 2009, Maritime Taiwan: Historical Encounters with the East and the West, M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, page 113:

     In order to ward off pirates, the Rosita and a leased three-masted vessel, the Miceno, carried guns and 100 pounds of ammunition provided by Joel Abbott, commander of the U.S. East India Squadron.

   • 2014 February 26, The Stationery Office, Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Export of Objects of Cultural Interest 2012/13, The Stationery Office, →ISBN, page 24:

     The Kathleen & May is a three-masted topsail schooner built largely in wood with a variety of metal fastenings and fixtures, and is fully rigged with textile sails set from wooden spars.