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# mainmast

«mainmast» in Mova's school dictionary: **the tallest and most important pole of a sailing ship…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (plural mainmasts)

### meaning for a pupil

The mainmast is the tallest and most important pole of a sailing ship, which holds the big sails. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mainmast/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

at sea in sea tales, the great central mast of a ship

### examples

- The head of the house got work as a mainmast in a very fine ship. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mainmast/#x1)
- The sailors climbed the mainmast to fix the sail. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mainmast/#x2)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «mainmast» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mainmast/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.