Definition of "jiggermast" []

• Any small mast on a sailing vessel; especially the mizzenmast of a yawl (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "It was Margaret who came to where I was stationed by the jiggermast and told me what had occurred; and it was she who took my rifle and relieved me so that I could go aft."
• "Behind the jiggermast I lighted the fuse of one of my extemporized bombs."
• "I alternate watches with him, although when on duty there is little to be done, save, in the daytime, to stand rifle in hand behind the jiggermast, and, in the night, to lurk along the break of the poop."