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Webster 1913 Edition

Mast

Mast

(mȧst)
,
Noun.
[AS.
maest
, fem.; akin to G.
mast
, and E.
meat
. See
Meat
.]
The fruit of the oak and beech, or other forest trees; nuts; acorns.
Oak
mast
, and beech, . . . they eat.
Chapman.
Swine under an oak filling themselves with the
mast
.
South.

Mast

,
Noun.
[AS.
maest
, masc.; akin to D., G., Dan., & Sw.
mast
, Icel.
mastr
, and perh. to L.
malus
.]
1.
(Naut.)
A pole, or long, strong, round piece of timber, or spar, set upright in a boat or vessel, to sustain the sails, yards, rigging, etc. A mast may also consist of several pieces of timber united by iron bands, or of a hollow pillar of iron or steel.
The tallest pine
Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the
mast

Of some great ammiral.
Milton.
☞ The most common general names of
masts
are
foremast
,
mainmast
, and
mizzenmast
, each of which may be made of separate spars.
2.
(Mach.)
The vertical post of a derrick or crane.
Afore the mast
,
Before the mast
.
See under
Afore
, and
Before
.
–
Mast coat
.
See under
Coat
.
–
Mast hoop
,
one of a number of hoops attached to the fore edge of a boom sail, which slip on the mast as the sail is raised or lowered; also, one of the iron hoops used in making a made mast. See
Made
.

Mast

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Masted
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Masting
.]
To furnish with a mast or masts; to put the masts of in position;
as, to
mast
a ship
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Mast

M`AST

,
Noun.
A long, round piece of timber, elevated or designed to be raised perpendicularly or nearly so, on the keel of a ship or other vessel, to which the yards,sails and rigging are attached, and by which they are supported. A mast is a single stick, formed from the trunk of a tree, or it consists of many pieces of timber united by iron bands. Masts are of several kinds, as the main-mast, fore-mast, mizzen-mast, top-mast, top-gallant-mast, &c.

M`AST

,
Noun.
The fruit of the oak and beech, or other forest trees; nuts; acorns. [It has no plural.]

Definition 2024

Mast

Mast

See also: mast, MAST, mást, måst, and mast-

German

Noun

Mast f

  1. fodder
  2. mast

Etymology 2

From Old High German mast.

Noun

Mast m

  1. pylon
  2. mast

mast

mast

See also: Mast, MAST, mást, måst, and mast-

English

Noun

mast ‎(plural masts)

  1. A tall, slim post or tower, usually tapering upward, used to support, for example, the sails on a ship, flags, floodlights, or communications equipment such as an aerial, usually supported by guy-wires.
  2. (naval) A non-judicial punishment ("NJP") disciplinary hearing under which a commanding officer studies and disposes of cases involving those under his command.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

mast ‎(third-person singular simple present masts, present participle masting, simple past and past participle masted)

  1. To supply and fit a mast to a ship
Translations

See also

Etymology 2

Old English mæst ‎(“fallen nuts, food for swine”), mæsten ‎(“to fatten, feed”), from West Germanic; probably related to meat.

Noun

mast ‎(plural masts)

  1. The fruit of forest-trees (beech, oak, chestnut, pecan, etc.), especially if having fallen from the tree, used as fodder for pigs and other animals.
    • 1955, Robin Jenkins, The Cone-Gatherers, Canongate 2012, page 162:
      He […] would begin to pick up the seed-cases or mast, squeeze each one with his fingers to see if it were fertile, and drop it if it were not.
    • (Can we date this quote?) Chapman
      Oak-mast, and beech, and cornel fruit, they eat.
    • (Can we date this quote?) South
      Swine under an oak filling themselves with the mast.
Translations

Verb

mast ‎(third-person singular simple present masts, present participle masting, simple past and past participle masted)

  1. (of swine and other animals) To feed on forest seed or fruit.
  2. (agriculture, forestry, ecology, of a population of plants) To vary fruit and seed production in multi-year cycles.
    • 1985, Michael Fenner, Seed ecology, page 33:
      Any individual tree which masted in a generally non-mast year would be subjected to the exclusive attention of the seed predators and so would be selected against.
    • 2004, Michael Scherer-Lorenzen, Christian Körner, Ernst-Detlef Schulze, Forest Diversity and Function: Temperate and Boreal Systems, page 28:
      However, if this were true, all or most masting species (e.g., Fagus and Quercus) in a forest would have to mast in synchrony to be effective against generalist herbivores.
    • 2008, Chris Rowthorn, Muhammad Cohen, China Williams, Borneo, page 50:
      Because dipterocarp seeds are winged and spin gracefully as they fall, the dispersal of millions of dipterocarp seeds during a masting event is one of the greatest spectacles that you can see on planet Earth.

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Anagrams

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *mastь.

Noun

mast f

  1. ointment

Derived terms

Related terms

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɑst/
  • Rhymes: -ɑst

Etymology 1

From Old Dutch *mast, from Proto-Germanic *mastaz.

Noun

mast m ‎(plural masten, diminutive mastje n)

  1. mast
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Noun

mast m ‎(plural masten, diminutive mastje n)

  1. mast, fodder for pigs or other animals made up of acorns and beechnuts.

Anagrams

Estonian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɑsʲt/

Etymology

From either Low German mast or German mast.

Noun

mast ‎(genitive masti, partitive masti)

  1. mast
  2. (poker) flush

Declension

Compounds

Kurdish

Noun

mast m

  1. yoghurt (a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process)


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Middle French

Etymology

Proto-Germanic *mastaz

Noun

mast m (plural masts)

  1. mast (structure found on watercraft)

Descendants

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Middle Low German mast ‎(“mast”).

Noun

mast f, m ‎(definite singular masta or masten, indefinite plural master, definite plural mastene)

  1. mast
Derived terms
Synonyms

References

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

Verb

mast

  1. past participle of mase

Old French

Etymology

Proto-Germanic *mastaz

Noun

mast m ‎(oblique plural maz or matz, nominative singular maz or matz, nominative plural mast)

  1. mast (structure found on watercraft)

Descendants

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *mastь (Russian масть ‎(mastʹ), Polish maść). Compare mazati.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mâːst/

Noun

mȃst f ‎(Cyrillic spelling ма̑ст)

  1. grease
  2. ointment
  3. fat
  4. lard
  5. schmaltz

Declension

References

  • “mast” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Swedish

Noun

mast c

  1. mast, tall slim structure

Declension

Inflection of mast 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative mast masten master masterna
Genitive masts mastens masters masternas

Zazaki

Noun

mast m

  1. yoghurt (a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process)

Synonyms

Etymology

From Old High German mast.

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