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mast
UK /mɑːst/ US /mæst/
noun 6verb 3name 1
Collocations
5ADJ.
bound, former, great, half, main, true
VERB + MAST
changed, climb, climbed, cut, flag, lowered, reach
MAST + NOUN
mark, sailboat, synchrony, uss
PREP.
in, on, with
ADV.
away
Definitions
noun
1
A tall, slim post or tower, usually tapering upward, used to support, for example, sails or observation platforms on a ship, the main rotor of a helicopter, flags, floodlights, meteorological instruments, or communications equipment, such a
2
A non-judicial punishment ("NJP"); a disciplinary hearing under which a commanding officer studies and disposes of cases involving those under his command.
verb
1
To supply and fit a mast to (a ship).
noun
1
The fruit of forest-trees (beech, oak, chestnut, pecan, etc.), especially if having fallen from the tree, used as fodder for pigs and other animals.
She ſhut them ſtraight in ſties; and gaue them meate / Oke-maſt, and beech, and Cornell fruite, they eate, […]
The Winter comes, and then the falling Maſt, / For greedy Swine, provides a full repaſt.
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She ſhut them ſtraight in ſties; and gaue them meate / Oke-maſt, and beech, and Cornell fruite, they eate, […]
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The Winter comes, and then the falling Maſt, / For greedy Swine, provides a full repaſt.
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[T]hey feed and grovel like Swine under an Oak, filling themſelves with the Maſt, but never ſo much as looking up, either to the Bows that bore, or the Hands that ſhook it down.
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Any individual tree which masted in a generally non-mast year would be subjected to the exclusive attention of the seed predators and so would be selected against.
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However, if this were true, all or most masting species (e.g., Fagus and Quercus) in a forest would have to mast in synchrony to be effective against generalist herbivores.
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Because dipterocarp seeds are winged and spin gracefully as they fall, the dispersal of millions of dipterocarp seeds during a masting event is one of the greatest spectacles that you can see on plane
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