The phrase "a mast" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a tall vertical structure on a ship or boat that supports sails or rigging.
Example: "The sailor climbed up the mast to adjust the sails for better wind capture."
Alternatives: "a pole" or "a spar".
"We're going to get a mast".
There was room for 18 paddles and, possibly, a mast.
MacArthur, aboard Kingfisher, was fighting fickle winds and rigging problems after a mast mishap on Wednesday.
An audience of reporters and photographers flocked around him, seagulls to a mast.
Certainly, pinning their political colours to a mast is tricky territory for comedians.
Average hipsters started to look like sailors clinging to a mast in a storm.
For example, the position of a mast gives a pretty good idea what the appendages below the water are like.
But some see it is as more of a mast, with a relatively small amount of occupied space.
Most traditional airships need a dozen people to tie it to a mast; the NT, just three.
"Every time we put up a mast, they had a party.
Would you get a mast year every year with those conditions?
