foretop
Americannoun
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a platform at the head of a fore lower mast of a ship.
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the forelock of an animal, especially a horse.
noun
Etymology
Origin of foretop
First recorded in 1250–1300, foretop is from the Middle English word fortop. See fore-, top 1
Example Sentences
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He climbs cautiously to the foretop to make certain, and sings out Albricias!
From Time Magazine Archive
Next came a poetic ode to Columbus that was as long and difficult to endure as the admiral’s voyage itself: “Then from the Pinta's foretop fell a cry, a trumpet song, ‘Light ho!
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
There had been a few men in the foretop when the action had commenced.
From Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812 by Barnes, James
The town itself, closely built and dirty, is divided by quebradas or ravines into three parts, extending along the side of a hill, and designated by the sailors as foretop, maintop, and mizentop.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 by Various
I was captain of the foretop then, and no mistake, and monarch of all I surveyed.’
From Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea by Stables, Gordon
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