eight-masted

eight-masted (not comparable)

1. (nautical) Having eight masts.
   • 1973, William A. Baker, A Maritime History of Bath, Maine and the Kennebec River Region, page 798:

     Theodore Lucas, writing on large schooners in the December 1900 issue of the Nautical Gazette, gave a proposal for a steel eight-masted schooner.

   • 1993 March 1, Werner Sollors; Caldwell Titcomb; Thomas A. Underwood; Randall Kennedy, Blacks at Harvard: A Documentary History of African-American Experience At Harvard and Radcliffe, NYU Press, →ISBN, page 286:

     The guitar was purchased in New York, after days of searching. It is not a common instrument.
     "Twelve strings–It sounds like an eight-masted schooner," Prof. Robert Hillyer, one of the sponsors of his Harvard visit, remarked yesterday.

   • 2018 September 24, Jürgen Sorgenfrei, Port Business: Second Edition, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, →ISBN, page 19:

     Equine ships, carrying horses and tribute goods and repair material for the fleet: eight-masted, about 103 m (339 ft) long and 42 m (138 ft) wide.

   • 2021 November 23, Margaret Killjoy, A Country of Ghosts, AK Press, →ISBN:

     I can't describe what it was like to pull into King's Station (née Pior Station) and see the iron palisades, to walk out onto King's Square (née Vorros Square) and look out on the steel-clad, eight-masted palace ship, moored in the bay, stationary now for 450 years, attached to the shore as much by polished barnacle as by chain and rope.