Bible dictionaries
Mast
What Bible dictionaries say about “Mast”, one article after the other.
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
Mast - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
M`AST, n. A long, round piece of timber, elevated or designed to be raised perpendicularly or nearly so, on the keel of a ship or other vessel, to which the yards,sails and rigging are attached, and by which they are supported. A mast is a single stick, formed from the trunk of a tree, or it consists of many pieces of timber united by iron bands. Masts are of several kinds, as the main-mast, fore-mast, mizzen-mast, top-mast, top-gallant-mast, _c.
M`AST, n. The fruit of the oak and beech, or other forest trees; nuts; acorns. [It has no plural.]
Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
The article in Easton + Webster 1828International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE 1915)
See SHIPS AND BOATS, II, 2, (3); 3.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2
The article in ISBE 1915