masthead

• POS: Noun, Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: mast=head

CIDE DICTIONARY

masthead, n. 

 The top or head of a mast; the part of a mast above the hounds.  [1913 Webster]

masthead, v. t. 

 To cause to go to the masthead as a punishment.  Marryat.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

masthead, n. & v.
--n.
1 the highest part of a ship's mast, esp. that of a lower mast as a place of observation or punishment.
2 the title of a newspaper etc. at the head of the front or editorial page.
--v.tr.
1 send (a sailor) to the masthead.
2 raise (a sail) to its position on the mast.

THESAURUS

masthead

billhead, book stamp, bookplate, brand, broad arrow, cachet, check, colophon, counterfoil, countermark, docket, government mark, government stamp, hallmark, imprint, label, letterhead, logo, logotype, plate, price tag, registered trademark, running head, running title, seal, sigil, signet, stamp, sticker, stub, tag, tally, ticket, title page, token, trade name, trademark, trademark name

ROGET THESAURUS

masthead

Punishment

VB punish, chastise, chasten, castigate, correct, inflict punishment, administer correction, deal retributive justice, cowhide, lambaste, visit upon, pay, pay out, serve out, do for, make short work of, give a lesson to, serve one right, make an example of, have a rod in pickle for, give it one, strike, deal a blow to, administer the lash, smite, slap, slap the face, smack, cuff, box the ears, spank, thwack, thump, beat, lay on, swinge, buffet, thresh, thrash, pummel, drub, leather, trounce, sandbag, baste, belabor, lace, lace one's jacket, dress, dress down, give a dressing, trim, warm, wipe, tund, cob, bang, strap, comb, lash, lick, larrup, wallop, whop, flog, scourge, whip, birch, cane, give the stick, switch, flagellate, horsewhip, bastinado, towel, rub down with an oaken towel, rib roast, dust one's jacket, fustigate, pitch into, lay about one, beat black and blue, beat to a mummy, beat to a jelly, give a black eye, tar and feather, pelt, stone, lapidate, masthead, keelhaul, execute, bring to the block, bring to the gallows, behead, decapitate, guillotine, decollate, hang, turn off, gibbet, bowstring, hang draw and quarter, shoot, decimate, burn, break on the wheel, crucify, empale, impale, flay, lynch, electrocute, gas, send to the gas chamber, torture, put on, put to the rack, picket, banish, exile, transport, expel, ostracize, rusticate, drum out, dismiss, disbar, disbench, strike off the roll, unfrock, post, suffer, suffer for, suffer punishment, be flogged, be executed, suffer the ultimate penalty, be hanged, come to the gallows, mount the gallows, swing, twist in the wind, dance upon nothing, die in one's shoes, be rightly served, be electrocuted, fry, ride the lightning, face the firing squad.