J. Hector St. Jean de Crevecoeur's "Letters from an American Farmer"

Mast

Definition (n)

1: a long pole or spar rising from the keel or deck of a ship and supporting the yards, booms, and rigging
2: a slender vertical or nearly vertical structure (such as an upright post in various cranes)
3: a disciplinary proceeding at which the commanding officer of a naval unit hears and disposes of cases against enlisted men

—  called also captain's mast

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