Crossword clues for foghorn
foghorn
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
foghorn \fog"horn\ n. A horn that emits a loud low-pitched sound, used on ships navigating in a fog, to warn other ships of their presence.
Syn: fog signal.
Wiktionary
n. A very loud low-pitched horn, used especially in lighthouses and on large boats.
WordNet
n. a loud low warning signal that can be heard by fog-bound ships [syn: fogsignal]
a warning device consisting of a horn that generates a loud low tone
Wikipedia
A foghorn is a fog signal that uses sound to warn vehicles of navigational hazards, or boats of the presence of other vessels, in foggy conditions. The term is most often used in relation to marine transport. When visual navigation aids such as lighthouses are obscured, foghorns provide an audible warning of rock outcrops, shoals, headlands, or other dangers to shipping.
A foghorn is a navigation aid at sea.
Foghorn may also refer to:
- " The Fog Horn", a 1951 science-fiction short story by Ray Bradbury
- " The Foghorn", a 1933 semi-horrific short story by Gertrude Atherton
- Foghorn Leghorn, a cartoon rooster that appears in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series
Usage examples of "foghorn".
A foghorn sounded mournfully in the distance, yet the Bowfin carried no such device itself.
Even a half mile inland, pelicans padded up and down the avenues, and the foghorns in the bay could be heard off and on, warning trawlers and barges and sloops away from the rocky shores.
Otherwise a cockfight is about as thrilling as a Foghorn Leghorn cartoon.
I could dimly see the hulking shadows of a dozen brontosaurs, darker shapes against the night, placidly chewing their cuds and farting like foghorns.
Ole Bubba, an Jenny, an my mama, an Dan, an Sue, is gone now, but probly not too far, cause ever time I hear a big ole foghorn on the water, or a bell from a bell buoy, I think of them.
Sometimes I wake up in the night and listen for the waves and for the foghorn of the lighthouse, and the bell buoy off China Point.
I shall call in the Black Witch and consult her, and then tomorrow morning I shall be able to tell Bruno my keeper what mode of existence the thirty-year-old Oskar is planning to carry on in the shadow of a buggaboo which, though getting blacker and blacker, is the same old friend that used to frighten me on the cellar stairs, that said boo in the coal cellar, so I couldn't help laughing, but it was there just the same, talking with fingers, coughing through the keyhole, moaning in the stove, squeaking in tune with the door, smoking up from chimneys when the ships were blowing their foghorns, when a fly buzzed for hours as it died between the double windows, or when eels clamored for Mama and my poor mama for eels, and when the sun sank behind Tower Mountain but lived on as pure sunlit amber.
From the unseen river, hundreds of feet below, foghorns boom in still longer and lower choruses of baleful warning, as if every place they sound from had already been the site of a terrible shipwreck, and the horns placed there to mourn long-drowned sailors.
I walk through a dense silence, then the foghorns sound, one after another.
In short, it was child's play for Leo, supported by foghorns, sirens, and a whistling cartridge case, to draw a frozen Oskar after him.
No one could have seen from the beach how Greff laid down the bicycle, unwrapped the ax from the onion sack, and stood for a while in devout silence, listening to the foghorns of the icebound freighters in the roadstead.
Out in the harbor, whistles and foghorns still made occasional clamor in the thick fog.
Out of the harbor, the foghorns still moaned, but the hissing of steam escaping from the near-by tugboat had stopped.
They listen to the foghorns, vainly try to make out the silhouettes of boats in the fog, then turn back over the canals and go home through the rain.
The blind ship floated in a steamy void, rock-ing, and around it the foghorns suddenly seemed louder.