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foretop

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fore·top  (fôrtp, fr-)
n.
1. also (-tp) Nautical A platform at the top of a ship's foremast.
2. A forelock, especially of a horse.
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Noun1.foretop - a platform at the head of a foremast
platform - a raised horizontal surface; "the speaker mounted the platform"
2.foretop - a lock of a horse's mane that grows forward between the ears
forelock
encolure - the mane of a horse
hair - a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss; "he combed his hair"; "each hair consists of layers of dead keratinized cells"
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Playing whist by the cabin lamps when it is storming outside is pleasant; walking the quarterdeck in the moonlight is pleasant; smoking in the breezy foretop is pleasant when one is not afraid to go up there; but these are all feeble and commonplace compared with the joy of seeing people suffering the miseries of seasickness.
The Innocents Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
With that he gave an order to the steersman, and sent Riach to the foretop.
Kidnapped by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context
She would have made a captain of the foretop in the old days.
Beyond the City by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
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