0 the mast (= a tall pole that supports the sails) in front of a ship's mainmast (= the tallest and most important mast): --
Hoist the mizzen!
There was no mistaking the skull and crossbones on the ship's mizzen mast.
The boat has a square sail on the mainmast and a triangular sail on the mizzen.
She has square sails on the fore and main masts, and is gaff rigged on the mizzen.
Increasingly stronger lines followed and a flying fox was established between a large boulder on the shore and the mizzen mast of the stricken ship.
The mizzen mast snapped off above the deck and the upper portion was not located.
When she sank she still had set about a third of the mizzen sail and some tarpaulin in the shrouds of the mizzen mast.
The pinnace lost its mizzen mast and was forced to retire.
Each of the three masts (fore, main and mizzen) is in three overlapping sections.
Main (24m) mast has double aluminum spreaders and mizzen mast is with single spreaders.
Zulus were two-masted boats and carried three sails - fore, mizzen and jib.
