Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Having or furnished with a mast or masts: Describes a ship, boat, or other vessel that is equipped with one or more masts, which are tall poles used to support sails.
   • Often used in combination: The word is frequently used with a number or descriptive term preceding it (e.g., single-masted, two-masted) to specify the number or type of masts.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • The harbor was filled with masted ships of all sizes.
  • They sailed a three-masted schooner across the Atlantic.
  • The old painting depicted a square-rigged, four-masted vessel.

Advanced Usage

• Compound Adjectives: The primary advanced usage is in forming compound adjectives to precisely describe a vessel's rigging.
  • single-masted: having one mast.
  • two-masted / double-masted: having two masts.
  • three-masted: having three masts.
  • tall-masted: having tall masts.

Variants and Related Words

• Mast (noun): The tall vertical pole on a ship that supports the sails and rigging.
• Unmasted (adjective): Not having a mast or masts; having lost its mast(s).

Synonyms

• Rigged (when used in a nautical context, e.g., a square-rigged ship).

Notes on Meaning

• The term is almost exclusively used in a nautical context to describe sailing vessels. It is not typically used for modern motorized ships unless they are sail-assisted or replicas.
• The example from the reference, "," illustrates its use to describe a ship's specific configuration at a point in time.

Adjective

1. having or furnished with a mast; often used in combination
   • probably was so masted when she set forth- S.E.Morrison
   • a three-masted bark