Lexicographical Neighbors of Foreboom
Literary usage of Foreboom
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1893)
"To ease the strain on the cable, the master took a rope called the foreboom guy,
which had an iron hook on one end, made a hitch with one end of the rope ..."
2. In the Tracks of the Trades: The Account of a Fourteen Thousand Mile by Lewis Ransome Freeman (1920)
"The foreboom was being hauled amidships preparatory to close-reefing the foresail,
when a solid wall of green water came combing over the port bow and ..."
3. Outing (1893)
"Jacob Fisher, a New Rochelle yachtsman, was knocked overboard by the foreboom of
the Azalea just as she was gybing round the Hempstead mark. ..."
4. The Adventures of a Blockade Runner by William Watson (1893)
"She quickly recovered herself again, and singularly and fortunately the sudden
jerk started the foreboom from where it lay pressing against the mast and ..."
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