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dismast

[ dis-mast, -mahst ]

verb (used with object)

  1. to deprive (a ship) of masts; mast; break off the masts mast of.


dismast

/ dɪsˈmɑːst /

verb

  1. tr to break off the mast or masts of (a sailing vessel)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • disˈmastment, noun
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Other Words From

  • dis·mastment noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of dismast1

First recorded in 1740–50; dis- 1 + mast 1
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Example Sentences

Dismast, dis-mast′, v.t. to deprive of a mast or masts.—n.

The Australian aircraft flew over Sunderland Friday, reporting the yacht had been dismast and the keel apparently had been detached.

From Reuters

But last week the Sail America group reluctantly accepted the challenge, amid indications it would seize every rule advantage to dismast the pesky Fay.

This plan did not work; gunnery was so imprecise that no captain knew whether a given culverin would dismast his enemy, drop its ball a quarter-mile short, or explode and wreck his own ship.

It was a bitter blow to the proud 18th Century shipbuilders of Britain and the U. S. to discover that the cliff-sided, lattice-sailed junks of China could outride a typhoon that would dismast a frigate.

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