0 the mast (= a tall pole that supports the sails) in front of a ship's mainmast (= the tallest and most important mast):
The boat has a square sail on the mainmast and a triangular sail on the mizzen.
There was no mistaking the skull and crossbones on the ship's mizzen mast.
Hoist the mizzen!
She is square-rigged with three masts - fore, main and mizzen.
We had a signal for medical assistance flying on the mizzen.
Carpenters are working earnestly to repair a damaged mizzen mast.
The design, with its distinctive mizzen mast and sail, was used first as a fishing or crabbing boat.
Soon the ship's mizzenmast was shot away, its hull was riddled, and its spar and rigging were reduced to wreckage.
A shot fired by a French marksman from the mizzenmast of the Redoutable tore through Nelson's left shoulder.
Sailing a 17th-century ship is a labour-intensive affair; a half-dozen crew members were needed just to set and adjust the mizzen, a small sail aft.
On the deck above, the original 'bridge' (just a canvas-protected platform with a compass, engine telegraph, and the wheel) was situated between the funnel and the mizzen mast.
