jury-mast
The Century Dictionary: The Encyelopedic Lexicon of the English Language · 1887 · p. 599
(jé’ri-mast), n. [The element jury-, found first in jury-mast and later in similar naut. compounds, jury-rudder, jury-rig, jury-rigged, and the slang term jwry-leg, is usually supposed to be an abbreviation of injury; but this presupposes a form *éinjury-mast, a highly improbable name for a new mast substituted for one which has been lost. The accent also makes an abbr. to jury improbable. More improbable still are the etymologies which refer the word to Dan. kidre, a driving,
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