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four-masted [fawr-mas-tid, -mah-stid, fohr-] Examples adjective Nautical.
- carrying four masts.
Examples from the Web for four-masted Historical Examples of four-masted
The Grace de Dieu was a four-masted vessel, and was built in 1515.
R.M. Ballantyne
Below them a four-masted schooner was tacking in the light wind.
Margaret Burnham
She was a four-masted vessel, fitted with double topsails, with a spread of canvas about 4,500 square yards.
Every-day Science: Volume VII. The Conquest of Time and Space
Henry Smith Williams
Fourteen four-masted ships, a part of them with crews of two hundred and fifty men, were equipped and victualled for two years.
Ocean’s Story; or Triumphs of Thirty Centuries
Edward Rowland
Her eyes fastened for an instant upon the tattoo of a four-masted sailing ship imprinted on his arm.
Mildred A. Wirt