mastless
Lacking vertical poles
Mastless describes a vessel or structure without a mast—the vertical pole that supports sails or rigging.
A ship may be mastless by design, as with modern motorized vessels, or by misfortune: The storm left the schooner mastless and adrift.
The word appears mostly in nautical contexts.
Stripped of sailing poles
- unriggedHad equipment removed
- hulkMassive body or shell
- derelictAbandoned or neglectful
- jury-riggedTemporarily fixed with scraps
stripped · becalmed · adrift · rudderless · disabled · crippled · shipwrecked · foundered
dismasted
Stripped of sailing poles
jury-rigged · stripped · becalmed · adrift · rudderless · disabled · crippled · shipwrecked · foundered · stranded
hull
Outer covering or frame
barque · galleon · frigate · sloop · brig · yacht · cutter · dinghy · clipper · corvette
bereft
Deprived through loss
- forlornSad and abandoned
- desolateBleak and abandoned
- incompleteLacking necessary parts
lacking · stripped · diminished · crippled · broken · weakened · impaired · deficient · truncated · shorn
mastlessmasted
Having vertical sail supports
rigged · fully-rigged · single-masted · multi-masted · fully rigged