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mizzen-mast
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Definition:the aft-most mast. Typically shorter than the fore-mast.Sections: Mizzen-mast lower—Mizzen topmast—Mizzen topgallant masttext from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
painting: by John Wilson Carmichael (1820)
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The rigging was found to be ill-fitted, and greatly strained; and on the third day of the blow, about five in the afternoon, our mizzen-mast, in a heavy lurch to windward, went by the board.
Edgar Allan Poe. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4: The Oblong Box (1844)
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Just then a sort of brightness fell upon me in the barrel, and, looking up, I found the moon had risen, and was silvering the mizzen-top and shining white on the luff of the foresail, and almost at the same time the voice on the lookout shouted, "Land ho!"
Robert Louis Stevenson. Treasure Island (1883)
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The sailors at the fore and mizzen had come down; the line tubs were fixed in their places; the cranes were thrust out; the mainyard was backed, and the three boats swung over the sea like three samphire baskets over high cliffs.
Herman Melville. Moby Dick
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Finding it was likely to overblow, we took in our sprit-sail, and stood by to hand the fore-sail; but making foul weather, we looked the guns were all fast, and handed the mizen.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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