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Foretop   Listen
noun
Foretop  n.  
1.
The hair on the forepart of the head; esp., a tuft or lock of hair which hangs over the forehead, as of a horse.
2.
That part of a headdress that is in front; the top of a periwig.
3.
(Naut.) The platform at the head of the foremast.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Foretop" Quotes from Famous Books



... the orders of the commander, was this replied to by the port 6-inch battery, the upper deck pompoms and the gun in the foretop that the firing on both sides appeared to be ...
— The Boy Allies with the Victorious Fleets - The Fall of the German Navy • Robert L. Drake
... view the remains. The Duchess and "Irene dear" gurgled and gushed and received congratulations. Eddie stood around and tried to look modest as was possible under the circumstances. The Dowager sailed over, tilted her nose up to the foretop, remarked "Humph"' through it and come about and stood at the other end of the porch. "My daughter" follers in her wake, observes "Humph!" likewise and makes for blue water. Milo comes over and ...
— Cape Cod Stories - The Old Home House • Joseph C. Lincoln
... to the groom to go back to the stable, for I had no doubt but that she would return to her stall when I closed the window. Rejoiced at the permission, he departed. After some thirty minutes, the last ten of which she was standing with her slim, delicate head in my lap, while I braided her foretop and combed out her silken mane, I lifted her head, and, patting her softly on either cheek, told her that she must 'go.' I gently pushed her head out of the window and closed it, and then, holding up my hand, with the palm ...
— The Junior Classics Volume 8 - Animal and Nature Stories • Selected and arranged by William Patten


Words linked to "Foretop" :   hair, forelock


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