"mainmast head" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1782, William Cowper, “Retirement”, in Poems, London: J. Johnson, page 280:",
          "text": "What early philosophic hours he keeps,\nHow regular his meals, how sound he sleeps!\nNot sounder he that on the mainmast head,\nWhile morning kindles with a windy red,\nBegins a long look-out for distant land,\nNor quits till evening-watch his giddy stand,\nThen swift descending with a seaman’s haste,\nSlips to his hammock, and forgets the blast.",
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          "ref": "1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Chapter 51”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:",
          "text": "Fedallah first descried this jet. For of these moonlight nights, it was his wont to mount to the main-mast head, and stand a look-out there, with the same precision as if it had been day.",
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          "text": "1912, George H. Read, The Last Cruise of the Saginaw, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Chapter 2, p. 12,\nWith the homeward-bound pennant flying from the mainmast head and with the contractor’s working party on board, we sailed from the Midway Islands on Friday, October 29, at 4 P.M. for San Francisco."
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        "The top of a sailing ship’s mainmast."
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        "(nautical) The top of a sailing ship’s mainmast."
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