"double-masted" meaning in English

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Adjective

Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} double-masted (not comparable)
  1. (nautical) Having two masts. Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Nautical Synonyms: two-masted, twin-masted
    Sense id: en-double-masted-en-adj-pPitq5lA Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: nautical, transport

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          "text": "Some years ago all the owners of racing schooners were up in arms against the Wildfire, and declared she was not one, but a double-masted cutter, or some such thing, and not a fair vessel to sail in their races, merely because she had a running bowsprit and cutter’s stem.",
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          "text": "In the tomb of a noble called Abibi, also of the IVth dynasty, there is a scene in which men are in the act of lowering the double mast (Fig. 44), and what is probably a double-masted ship under sail is found in the tomb-sculpture of a IVth dynasty noble called Ipi (Fig. 45).",
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          "text": "to the 1st to 2nd century AD.19 A double-masted Satavahana ship has also been found on a seal from the Bengal Bay area (Pargadas), dated to the 2nd century AD; this oval seal is now in the National Museum of Kolkata.",
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