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Definition of Foremasts
1. foremast [n] - See also: foremast
Lexicographical Neighbors of Foremasts
Literary usage of Foremasts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey, John Wood Warter (1855)
"... a ship with two keels, that carried two foremasts, and having two sails, drew
more wind, but less water, and consequently must sail faster than others. ..."
2. The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: With a Life of the by Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1859)
"Neither seems the industry of man to have been ignorant of this, when, in a
fore-wind, theii greatest hopes have been in their foremasts, and in calms they ..."
3. Monthly Nautical Magazine, and Quarterly Review (1856)
"The diameters of masts and spars generally follow some proportion to their length,
thus : main and foremasts of ships, one inch for every three feet of the ..."
4. Publicationsby Naval History Society, Dürer Society (London, England), Campbell Dodgson, Gustav Pauli, S. Montagu Peartree by Naval History Society, Dürer Society (London, England), Campbell Dodgson, Gustav Pauli, S. Montagu Peartree (1915)
"... that that was the 1 A vessel equipped with two masts, resembling the main and
foremasts of a ship, and a third small mast just abaft the mainmast, ..."
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