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1. The tallest mast on a ship [1] with more than one mast, especially the tallest mast on a full-rigged ship. 2. On a ship with more than one mast, the second mast from the bow. mainmast head The top of a sailing vessel's mainmast. mainmastman A sailor assigned to the mainmast. mains The main brails on the mainsail. [2] mainsheet
AAW An acronym for anti-aircraft warfare. aback (of a sail) Filled by the wind on the opposite side to the one normally used to move the vessel forward.On a square-rigged ship, any of the square sails can be braced round to be aback, the purpose of which may be to reduce speed (such as when a ship-of-the-line is keeping station with others), to heave to, or to assist moving the ship's head ...
British naval cadets dancing the hornpipe in 1928. The hornpipe is any of several dance forms and their associated tunes, played and danced in Great Britain and Ireland and elsewhere from the 16th century until the present day.
Pipes and drums or pipe bands, composed of musicians who play the Scottish and Irish bagpipes; Organ pipe, one of the tuned resonators that produces the main sound of a pipe organ; Pan pipes, see Pan flute, an ancient musical instrument based on the principle of the stopped pipe; Piped music, or elevator music, a type of background music
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four feet – pipe organ rank that speaks one octave higher than 8 ′ IV usually for orchestral string instruments, used to indicate that the player should play the passage on the lowest-pitched, thickest string, i.e. the fourth-highest string IV–VI mixture stop on pipe organ; the Roman numeral indicates how many ranks of pipes the stop ...
Many Desperate Housewives fans are still mourning the death of Mike Delfino, 12 years later. But for actor James Denton, getting shot "was a lot of fun.". In a recent interview with PEOPLE, the ...
One and done: Miami lost Saturday's decisive Game 3 to Atlanta, 3-2, to end their historic campaign earlier than anyone expected. The 34-point difference between Miami (74) and Atlanta (40) was ...