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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having three masts.

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Examples

  • No sad-eyed elephants, no three-masted clipper ships and, sadly, no dead presidents either.

    CLOUD DANCING • by J. Thomas Arant 2009

  • "Never were there more dainty and lovable topmasts on a three-masted schooner, and never was there a three - masted schooner that worked like the witch she was to windward."

    CHAPTER XV 2010

  • Rick and Michael Mast , co-founders of Mast Brothers Chocolate, eventually found the three-masted Black Seal, which Captain Eric Loftfield had spent 25 years building in his Cape Cod lawn as a hobby.

    Cocoa Arrives, By Sail Andrew Grossman 2011

  • The Tui Tai is a three-masted schooner that sails around remote islands in northern Fiji.

    Sea change: 10 quirky cruises 2011

  • And when the news went around that these were part of the survivors of the three-masted schooner, Mary Turner, smashed into kindling wood and sunk by a whale, the elderly females no more believed than had they the yarn of the sunken island.

    CHAPTER XVI 2010

  • Rick and Michael Mast , co-founders of Mast Brothers Chocolate, eventually found the three-masted Black Seal, which Captain Eric Loftfield had spent 25 years building in his Cape Cod lawn as a hobby.

    Cocoa Arrives, By Sail Andrew Grossman 2011

  • She was a trim little three-masted schooner, topsail-rigged, and Jack used her later as a model for Cap'n Larsen's vessel in The Sea-Wolf.

    Heinold's First and Last Chance Saloon 2010

  • The three-masted SV Concordia was on a five-month voyage that allows students in secondary school grades 11 and 12 and the first year of college to study while sailing around the world.

    Brazil Navy Saves Students After Capsize 2010

  • The three-masted SV Concordia was on a five-month voyage that allows students in secondary school grades 11 and 12 and the first year of college to study while sailing around the world.

    Brazil Navy Saves Students After Capsize 2010

  • The men's version is Hermès orange; the women's is white, with rounded curves, reminiscent of potholes (the original Clipper series, launched in 1981, paid homage to the three-masted ship).

    Haute Couture Takes On Horlogerie Jemima Sissons 2010

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