Pole Mast

"You are American?" he asked, pointing to the star-spangled banner on the pole-mast. ❋ James Allan (N/A)

The tall mast is the mainmast, the short mast is the mizzen; some ketches carry square sails on the main, some carry a topsail on the mizzen -- the distinctive mark of the ketch being that the mizzen is a pole-mast and stepped in front of the stern-post. ❋ Various (N/A)

She was a pole-mast, schooner-rigged steam yacht, Charley accurately told me, with clipper bow and spiked bowsprit. ❋ Owen Wister (1899)

“You are American?” he asked, pointing to the star-spangled banner on the pole-mast. ❋ Allan, James (1898)

The sound of the splash was in my ears and the echo of my own laugh, but with it there mingled a cry from Billy Priske, and shaking the water out of my eyes I saw him erect in the stern-sheets and astare at a vision parting the fog -- the vision of a tall fore-and-aft sail, golden-grey against the sunlight, and above the sail a foot or two of a stout pole-mast, and above the mast a gilded truck and weather-vane with a tail of scarlet bunting. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)