two-masted

Like a ketch

Two-masted describes a sailing vessel with two masts: a two-masted schooner, The two-masted brigantine rounded the cape.

The term appears primarily in nautical contexts, distinguishing such vessels from single-masted sloops or larger three-masted ships.

rigging

schooner

Multi-masted sailing craft

  • brigShipboard detention quarters
  • ketchTwo-masted fore-and-aft vessel
  • yawlTwo-masted sailing vessel

brigantine · mainmast · foremast · gaff · boom · shrouds · stays · halyard · topmast · spanker

sailing

tacking

Angled sailing maneuver

running · windward · leeward · heeling · trimming · reefing · helm · steering · crew · captain

vessels

sailboat

Wind-propelled watercraft

lugger · dhow · packet ship · privateer · merchantman · yacht · dinghy · cutter · sloop · pinnace

Opposites
mast count

two-mastedsingle-masted

With one upright spar

unmasted · three-masted · sloop · mastless · multi-masted

Family

two, mast, masted, twos, twice, twins, twinned, twofold, twenty

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