foredoom

Example Sentences

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Let go that foreboom tackle and pass it across, and when she’s willing let go the sheet and come in snug with the tackle. 

From The Sea Wolf by London, Jack

She was running before the wind—yawing frightfully—her staysail let down to act as a sort of extra foresail,—"scandalized," they call it,—and her foreboom guyed out over the side.

From Captains Courageous by Kipling, Rudyard

Aft of these the foreboom and booby of the main-hatch took all the space that was not needed for the pumps and dressing-pens.

From Captains Courageous by Kipling, Rudyard