Definition of "mastless" []

• Without a mast. (adjective)

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• "As the cacophony of sound raged around him he fell silent, breathing deeply, and stood there for a short while longer, turning this way and that, like a once great ship lashed by a terrible storm, mastless and twisting at anchor, until something in him seemed to give way."
• "Lined up alongside a pontoon on the landward side of the marina is a cluster of strange, mastless boats."
• "He laughed at their gunnery training on a mastless ship and demanded to know just how they could be of service on an expedition sailing ship which carried only small arms."