foretop [fawr-top, fohr-; for 1 also Nautical fawr-tuh p, fohr-] ExamplesWord Origin noun
- a platform at the head of a fore lower mast of a ship.
- the forelock of an animal, especially a horse.
Origin of foretop First recorded in 1250–1300, foretop is from the Middle English word fortop. See fore-, top1 Examples from the Web for foretop Historical Examples of foretop
Take her from foretop to fetlocks, she’s as lovely as a diamond flush.
Alfred Henry Lewis
There were nine or ten men in the foretop, all lashed and huddled together.
Thomas Stanley Treanor
We could not see the splash from the bridge, nor could they in the foretop.
James B. Connolly
“On our starboard beam, sir,” sang out Masters from the foretop.
John C. Hutcheson
Whenever I have a mind for a filbert, I have only to shake my foretop.
Imaginary Conversations and Poems
Walter Savage Landor
British Dictionary definitions for foretop foretop noun
- nautical a platform at the top of the foremast