Assertion: mast | /r/HasProperty | fixed in the ship
Facets:
value: by sheers
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: A lower mast is fixed in the ship by sheers (which see), and the foot or keel of it rests in a block of timber called the step, which is fixed upon the keelson.--Expending a mast, or carrying it away, is said, when it is broken by foul weather.--Fore-mast.