Usually means: Remove or break a ship's mast.
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  1. dismast: Merriam-Webster
  2. dismast: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dismast: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dismast: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dismast: Wordnik
  6. dismast: Wiktionary
  7. dismast: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. dismast: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Dismast, dismast: Dictionary.com
  10. Dismast: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. dismast: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Dismast: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. dismast: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. dismast: FreeDictionary.org
  15. dismast: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  2. Dismast: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (dismast)

▸ verb:  (transitive, nautical) To break off the mast (of a ship), especially by gunfire.

Similar:
demast, unmast, carry away, disship, pipe down, dismount, amain, disbark, strike, unstep, more...

Opposite:
remast, rig, equip, outfit, prepare

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Similar:
demast, unmast, carry away, disship, pipe down, dismount, amain, disbark, strike, unstep, more...

Opposite:
remast, rig, equip, outfit, prepare



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