Mastless

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Mast´less

a. 1. Bearing no mast; as, a mastless oak or beech.

1. Having no mast; as, a mastless vessel.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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I sought no shelter, therefore, but the sky; and toiling into Chatham, - which, in that night's aspect, is a mere dream of chalk, and drawbridges, and mastless ships in a muddy river, roofed like Noah's arks, - crept, at last, upon a sort of grass-grown battery overhanging a lane, where a sentry was walking to and fro.

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Burgin, who had been on the helm, found himself in the water well clear of the yacht when she righted herself, mastless.

Eight bells: two past winners of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race sailed their final voyage in December ... Graham Newland and Alby Burgin