fore-topmast
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of fore-topmast
First recorded in 1620–30
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The rigging is in tatters and the fore-topmast in danger, and the carpenter reports two serious leaks.
From Stories of Our Naval Heroes Every Child Can Read by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
To break; as, "That ship has carried away her fore-topmast," i.e. has broken it off.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
Pieces of hard wood bolted to the outer end of the bowsprit, to reeve the fore-topmast stays through, the bolt, serving as a pin, commonly called bees.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
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
A rope rove through a sheave or block on the fore-topmast head, for hoisting the jib.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
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