royal mast

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   topmast immediately above the topgallant mast

   Broadertopmast

Questions about royal mast

What does royal mast mean?

royal mast means "topmast immediately above the topgallant mast".

Is royal mast a common word?

royal mast is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.