Usually means: Serving as a common sailor.
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  1. before the mast: Merriam-Webster
  2. before the mast: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. before the mast: Collins English Dictionary
  4. before the mast: Wordnik
  5. before the mast: Wiktionary
  6. Before the mast, before the mast: Dictionary.com
  7. Before the Mast: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  8. before the mast: FreeDictionary.org
  9. Before the mast: TheFreeDictionary.com

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (before the mast)

adjective:  (literally) Having living quarters in the forecastle of a vessel
adjective:  Describing seamen rather than officers

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