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Furnished with a mast or masts; -- chiefly in composition; as, a three-masted schooner.

Having masts smaller than the usual dimension; -- said of vessels. Totten.

A two-masted Arab or Indian trading vessel, used in Indian Ocean.

A three-masted vessel, having her foremast and mainmast squarerigged, and her mizzenmast schooner-rigged.

A threemasted vessel, having the foremast square-rigged, and the others schooner-rigged. [Spelled also barquentine, barkantine, etc.] See Illust. in Append.

A two-masted passenger boat or small vessel, used in the bay of Manila.

A small two-masted merchant vessel, fitted only for coasting, or for use in canals, as in Holland. Why choose we, then, like bilanders to creep Along the coast, and land in view to keep Dryden.

A two-masted, square-rigged vessel. Hermaphrodite brig, a two- masted vessel square-rigged forward and schooner-rigged aft. See Illustration in Appendix.

A two-masted, square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig in that she does not carry a square mainsail.

To deprive of a mast of masts; to break and carry away the masts from; as, a storm dismasted the ship.

The act of dismasting; the state of being dismasted. [R.] Marshall.

A two-masted fishing vessel, used by the Dutch.

fitted with an apparatus to fix or take out the masts of a ship. -- The hulks, old or dismasted ships, formerly used as prisons. [Eng.] Dickens.

A conceited dolt; a perverse blockhead. Jackass bark (Naut.), a three-masted vessel, with only the foremast square-rigged; a barkentine. -- Jackass deer (Zoöl.), the koba. -- Jackass hare, Jackass rabbit (Zoöl.). See Jack rabbit, under 2d Jack, n. -- Jackass penguin (Zoöl.), any species of penguin of the genus Sphen…

graining leather; same as Jack, 4 (i). Jigger mast. (Naut.) (a) The after mast of a four- masted vessel. (b) The small mast set at the stern of a yawlrigged boat.

A two-masted Dutch vessel.

The hindmost of the fore and aft sails of a three-masted vessel; also, the spanker.

The hindmost mast of a three-masted vessel, or of a yawl-rigged vessel.

six masts, so rigged, are built. Schooners with more than two masts are designated three-masted schooners, four-masted schooners, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.

, three peduncles growing together from the same axis. -- Tern schooner (Naut.), a three-masted schooner.