nine-masted
English
Adjective
nine-masted (not comparable)
- (nautical) Having nine masts.
- 2003 September 18, Rick Bass, The Hermit's Story: Stories, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN:
- Huge dragon-headed clouds tower in an azure sky, and nine-masted schooners plow in all directions the eternal blue, trailing in their wake schools of leaping porpoises.
- 2011 July 1, Shih-shan Henry Tsai, Perpetual Happiness: The Ming Emperor Yongle, University of Washington Press, →ISBN, page 207:
- However, the fact thatthe total number of ships involved in different expeditions varied from 48 to 249, whereas the number of personnel remained about twenty-seven thousand led Paul Pelliot to conclude that Zheng He's fleet consisted of smaller numbers of nine-masted ships and larger numbers of middle-sized and small-sized vessels, numbering between one hundred and five hundred.
- 2017, Long Tang, The Book of War: From Chinese History, Algora Publishing, →ISBN, page 136:
- The fleet consisted of seven types of ships: Treasure ships (宝船, Bǎo Chuán) — They were four-tiered, nine-masted fleet carriers of the time, about 416 feet long and 170 feet wide, used by Zheng He and his deputies as command vessels and for storage of collected valuables. Each ship had the capacity to carry 800 men.