mizzenmast
See also: mizzen-mast
English
WOTD – 1 May 2009
![](../I/m/Belgian_barquentine_Mercator._Trinidad%2C_c._1960.jpg)
The Belgian barquentine Mercator shown here has three masts: a square-rigged foremast on the left, a fore-and-aft-rigged mainmast in the middle, and a fore-and-aft-rigged mizzenmast on the right.
Alternative forms
Noun
mizzenmast (plural mizzenmasts)
Translations
nautical: aftmost mast
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