mizzenmast
- n third mast from the bow in a vessel having three or more masts; the after and shorter mast of a yawl, ketch, or dandy
- To such landlubbers, nautical language all sounds distressingly like shiver-me- mizzenmast or belay-the-taffrail or somesuch, and they quickly jump ship in search of books written .
- In the subsequent melee, even the lovely Schiaffino is impaled on a lance the size of a mizzenmast.