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Definition of Fogbank
1. Noun. A large mass of fog on the sea (as seen from a distance).
Definition of Fogbank
1. Noun. A bank of fog. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fogbank
Literary usage of Fogbank
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... mere fancy and fogbank. But when discovery really came to be undertaken, men
looked for such lands and found them accordingly. ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1835)
"Whew ! the bunting clip« into the smoke to leeward, vanishing like a dark-winged
sea-bird dipping into a fogbank, the ensign ..."
3. Historical Account of the Most Celebrated Voyages, Travels, and Discoveries by William Fordyce Mavor (1796)
"... others, that what ho faw was only a fogbank; and of this latter opinion is
Captain Wood, an able navigator, ..."
4. Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain by John Ruskin (1877)
"... and whose books are merely so much floating fogbank, which the first breath
of sound public health and sense will blow back into its native ditches for ..."
5. Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage, and of a by John Ross (1835)
"Every hand was held up to feel if a wind was coming, every cloud and fogbank
watched, and all prophesied according to their hopes or fears, till they were ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... founded—who knew on what T—whether on the real adventure of a vessel driven
in sight of the Azores or Bermudas, or on mere fancy and fogbank. ..."
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