fore-topmast
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of fore-topmast
First recorded in 1620–30
Example Sentences
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Even with the naked eye they soon could see that her bulwarks were badly battered, and that her fore-topmast had been carried away.
From Annie o' the Banks o' Dee by Gordon Stables
The former lost her main-topmast, and as she had previously lost her fore-topmast she became totally unmanageable.
From By Conduct and Courage A Story of the Days of Nelson by W. (William) Rainey
A shell had shattered the fore-topmast, the debris falling athwart the steel canopy protecting the range-finding officers.
From With Beatty off Jutland A Romance of the Great Sea Fight by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
Hardly an hour afterwards, in taking in the fore-topmast stun'sail, the halliards carried away.
From The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life by Frank T. Bullen
But she was not so lucky—for we could see, by their getting preventer-backstays upon her fore-topmast, that the mast was crippled.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 by Various
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