The Collaborative International Dictionary
Foreyard \Fore"yard`\, n. (Naut.) The lowermost yard on the foremast.
Note: [See Illust. of Ship.]
Wiktionary
n. (context nautical English) A yard on the lower mast of a square-rigged foremast of a ship used to support the foresail.
Usage examples of "foreyard".
Then, coming to the foremast, the bottom one is the foreyard and the big square sail set upon it is the fore course.
And the frigate was at anchor just off the end of the peninsula, her main and foreyards down on deck, obviously being worked on by the French carpenters.
By the time the sun teased apart the clouds and appeared over the foreyards, the first slivers of Cuxhaven's steeples hove into view, a familiar and welcoming sight.
Jack fired number five, caught a glimpse of topsails towering overhead, saw the Bellone's foreyards glide into the Lord Nelson's shrouds, and heard an enormous cheering, roaring of boarders behind him, behind him.
Jack fired number five, caught a glimpse of topsails towering overhead, saw the Bellone’s foreyards glide into the Lord Nelson’s shrouds, and heard an enormous cheering, roaring of boarders behind him, behind him.
Only that morning he had had a man flogged for letting a marline-spike fall from the foreyard.