mast
To supply and fit a mast toTo supply and fit a mast to (a ship).
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» The mast broke and our ship went adrift.
Der Mast brach ab, und unser Schiff ließ sich treiben. — Dejo
Мачта сломалась, и наше судно легло в дрейф. — Hellerick
Щогла зламалась, і наш корабель почав дрейфувати. — Oleksandr_Tahayev
Dejo · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
3 sensesTo supply and fit a mast to (a ship).
To feed on forest seed or fruit.
To produce a very large quantity of fruit or seed in certain years but not others.
Examples
28 sentencesThe mast broke and our ship went adrift.
Щогла зламалась, і наш корабель почав дрейфувати. — Oleksandr_Tahayev
ruМачта сломалась, и наше судно легло в дрейф. — Hellerick
deDer Mast brach ab, und unser Schiff ließ sich treiben. — Dejo
Ulysses asked his men to tie him to the mast.
Одіссей наказав своїм матросам прив'язати себе до мачти. — deniko
deOdysseus ließ sich von seinen Männern an den Mast binden. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
This sailing ship has three masts.
deDieses Segelschiff ist ein Dreimaster. — Melang
This sailing ship's got three masts.
deDieses Segelschiff ist ein Dreimaster. — Melang
That sailing ship has three masts.
deDas Schiff ist ein Dreimaster. — Melang
Translations
1 languagesOrigin
From Middle English mast, from Old English mæst (“mast”), from Proto-West Germanic *mast,From Middle English mast, from Old English mæst (“mast”), from Proto-West Germanic *mast, from Proto-Germanic *mastaz (“mast, sail-pole”), from Proto-Indo-European *mazdos (“pole, mast”).
From Old English mæst (“fallen nuts, food for swine”) and mæstan (“to fatten”), from West Germanic; probably related to meat.
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Forms
masts, masting, masted, mastedWord family
14 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.