The lower masts were made of iron, but the other masts were wood.

I dare say you must: but however busy you are, do not miss the getting out of our lower masts.

In front of the converted sloop is a smaller vessel, with two lower masts and nets drying across the main deck.

Until recently the pole was usually secured by a parrot beak to a ring on the lower mast.

At the head of lower masts in large vessels, they support a semicircular platform called the "top."

Vestal had only her lower masts standing, and had five killed and twenty wounded.

The topmast is semi-permanently attached to the upper front of the lower mast, at the top.

In every other respect, however, the "topmast" lived on, with separate shrouds to the lower mast and a top between the two.

The hollow steel lower masts are investigated as well, and found to be empty.

A square sail is the simplest way of creating a large sail area on a relatively low mast.