MAST  桅竿

LONG VERTICAL BEAM FOR HANGING SAILS on, IN the MIDDLE of a SHIP.
Hypernym
  • BEAMLARGE TIMBER USED TO BUILD BUILDINGS.
    • TIMBERSUBSTANCE OF the MAIN PART of TREES.
      • SUBSTANCETHING NOT SEPARATED into SEPARATE PARTS.
        • THINGCONCRETE OBJECT....
See also
  • SAILPART of SHIP PRODUCED USING CLOTH, which RECEIVES the FORCE of the WIND.
    • SAILPART of SHIP PRODUCED USING CLOTH, which RECEIVES the FORCE of the WIND.
      Old Chinese Criteria
      1. The only word for a mast, exceedingly rare, is wéi 桅. Early China was not a great sailing nation.

      黄金貴：古漢語同義詞辨釋詞典
      HUANG JINGUI 2006

      COMM 29. 船上掛帆的豎杆。二詞最早見於漢代。

      桅，通稱，口語性較強。

      檣，書面語色彩較濃。古漢語中 “ 桅 ” 的使用少於 “ 檣 ” ；一直到明代的口語語料中， “ 桅 ” 才在使用上占優勢。

      Modern Chinese Criteria
      桅桿

      桅杆

      桅

      檣

      rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／

      • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 10.87

      Attributions by syntactic funtion

      • n : 1

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      Words

      桅  wéi OC: ŋɡuul MC: ŋuo̝i 1 AttributionWD

      The only word for a mast, exceedingly rare, is wéi 桅. Early China was not a great sailing nation.

        Syntactic words
      • nmast
      檣  qiáng OC: sɡaŋ MC: dzi̯ɐŋ 0 AttributionsWD
        Syntactic words
      • nWANG CAN: ship mast

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