1. sent to the top of a ship’s mast as punishment
Usage: nautical; historical
2. displayed prominently at the top of a newspaper or magazine page
Usage: journalism

Examples

• The sailor was mastheaded for three hours as discipline.
• The disobedient crew member found himself mastheaded at dawn.
• The breaking news story was mastheaded on the front page.
• Her editorial was mastheaded in the Sunday edition.
• The captain ordered the troublemaker to be mastheaded immediately.
• The newspaper mastheaded the election results prominently.