forward-mast

Updated: September 17, 2025

Partaking of the double character of brig and schooner, the sails and spars of the forward-mast being of the former, while those of the after-mast were of the latter construction, seamen have given to this class of shipping the familiar name of Hermaphrodites.

James Fenimore Cooper - The Water-Witch or, the Skimmer of the Seas