six-masted
English
Adjective
six-masted (not comparable)
- (nautical) Having six masts.
- 1904, Hearings before The Merchant Marine Commission, page 507:
- Senator Mallory. Take a five-masted schooner of 2,000 tons, or a six-masted schooner. Was not that a six-masted schooner we saw at Philadelphia? Take a six-masted schooner of 2,000 tons.
Mr. Foley. I do not think there is any schooner of that size now.
Senator Mallory. Yes: she is 2,400 tons net.
Mr. Foley. Six masted?
Senator Mallory. Yes; we saw her in Philadelphia yesterday.
- 1912, Emory Richard Johnson, Panama Canal Traffic and Tolls, page 271:
- One of the two six-masted schooners is 302 feet 11 inches long on the keel and 345 feet long on deck. She has 48 feet 3 inches beam and is 22 feet 6 inches deep; her gross tonnage is 2,974, the net tonnage 2,743, and she will carry a little over 5,000 tons of coal.
- 2009 January 1, Dan Michael Worrall, The Anglo-German Concertina: A Social History, Dan Michael Worrall, →ISBN, page 275:
- Originally built as a six-masted, screw-propelled steamer in 1843, it was later converted to a three-masted, square-rigged steamer for the England-to-Australia run in the 1860s and 1870s.