Crossword clues for foretop
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Foretop \Fore"top`\, n.
The hair on the forepart of the head; esp., a tuft or lock of hair which hangs over the forehead, as of a horse.
That part of a headdress that is in front; the top of a periwig.
(Naut.) The platform at the head of the foremast.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete English) The top of the head; the top of the forehead. 2 (context obsolete English) The lock of hair which grows on top of the forehead; the corresponding part of a wig. 3 (context obsolete English) In the phrase, ''to take time'' (or ''occasion'' or ''opportunity'') ''by the foretop'', meaning "to boldly seize an opportunity". 4 (context obsolete English) A fop; one who sports a foretop. 5 (context UK dialectal English) An erect tuft of hair. 6 The forelock of a horse. 7 (context nautical English) A platform at the top of the foremast, supported by the trestle trees. 8 The front seat at the top of a horse-drawn vehicle.
WordNet
n. a platform at the head of a foremast
a lock of a horse's mane that grows forward between the ears [syn: forelock]
Usage examples of "foretop".
When at last the evening gun boomed out and the bosun did pipe 'Stand by your hammocks', the first gust of the levanter came racing across the water with a low cloud of spray: it struck the Surprise from astern, a glancing blow that drove her foretop deep, so that she gave a sudden peck like a horse going over a hedge and finding the ground on the far side much lower than it had expected - a movement so violent that it flung Stephen and Jacob the length of the gunroom, together with their backgammon board, the dice and the men.
Before a uniform, they feel the humble and servile enthusiasm of the female of the lower animals before the crests, foretops and gay plumes of the fighting males.
But apart from that, sir, and the forward chain-pump choked, foretop halliards badly chafed, and bowsprit gammoning not what it might be, everything is shipshape, tolerably shipshape.
The swivel gun banged again and he heard Gascoigne yelling and cheering as the canister ripped away the wooden barricade around the enemy's foretop and blasted the marksmen down like birds from a branch.
Once the ship had been put about - which was done with creditable speed, in near silence - and once she was heading south by east under reefed courses with the wind a little abaft the beam, as inconspicuous as a ship of the line could ever hope to be, her captain's station was in the foretop with the pilot, an attentive midshipman on deck to relay his orders.