The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word SHROUDS which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 1956.
Supports for ships' masts crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SHROUDS | 100 % | 7 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Supports for ships' masts
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- distinguish
- helena
- masted
- mizzenmast
- rigging
- standing rigging
- tackle
- topmast
- crane
- cutter
- bibb
- outrigger
Crossword Answer definitions
SHROUDS noun- That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
- Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
- That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
- A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
- A rope or cable serving to support the mast sideways.
- One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
- To cover with a shroud.
- To conceal or hide from view, as if by a shroud.
- To take shelter or harbour.
- The branching top of a tree; foliage.
- To lop the branches from (a tree).
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