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Fore-topmast   Listen
noun
Fore-topmast  n.  (Naut.) The mast erected at the head of the foremast, and at the head of which stands the fore-topgallant mast; the mast next above the foremast. See Ship.






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"Fore-topmast" Quotes from Famous Books



... Then the—fore-topmast crosstrees reports a sail on the weather quarter, the Richard is brought around on the wind, and away we go after a brigantine, "flying like a snow laden with English bricks," as Midshipman Coram jokingly remarks. A chase is not such a novelty with us that we crane ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

... this, and there is no knowing what he might have said, had not an old sea-dog, who had just come out of the fore-topmast cross-trees, come aft, and, hitching up his trowsers with one hand while he touched his hat with the other, said ...
— Jack Tier or The Florida Reef • James Fenimore Cooper



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