How To Use Foretop In A Sentence
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Now the foretop is a place high up in the rigging of the ship, a very giddy height indeed, and when a man is there he is really almost out of sight and it is impossible to see what he is doing from the deck.
Susan A Story for Children
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There is a good deal of what I call a lubber's fuss, parson, kept up on board a ship that shall be nameless, but which bears, about three leagues distant, broad off in the ocean, and which is lying to under a close-reefed maintopsail, a foretopmast-staysail, and foresail -- I call my hand a true one in mixing a can -- take another pull at the halyards!
The Pilot
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Alongside of three other slumberers from below, he lay near that end of the booms which approaches the fore-mast; his station aloft on duty as a foretopman being just over the deckstation of the forecastlemen, entitling him according to usage to make himself more or less at home in that neighbourhood.
Billy Budd
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Though our new-made foretopman was well received in the top and on the gun decks, hardly here was he that cynosure he had previously been among those minor ship's companies of the merchant marine, with which companies only had he hitherto consorted.
Billy Budd
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“When we go aloft, you get into the foretop, and keep one of these going all the time, do you hear?”
The Ghost Pirates
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She is generally under two topsails, fore and main topsails, fore and foretopmast staysails, sometimes topgallant sails and jib, but seldom any sail on the mizzen, except while in chase of a vessel.
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Reuben Male, Robert Sinclair, and Samuel Honey — Terror's fo'c'sle captain, Erebus's foretop captain, and Terror's blacksmith, respectively — stepped forward.
The Terror
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In the maintop were the first mate and three or four of the crew, and in the foretop were the rest, all bunched together and waiting for instructions.
The Grain Ship
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Could a captain of the fo'c'sle, a captain of the foretop, and a blacksmith sail HMS Terror almost two hundred miles south through a maze of leads?
The Terror
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They also have on display the actual foretopsail that was rigged on the Victory during the battle.
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You'd have made a right good foretopman if your heart is as stout as your fingers are quick," said he.
Rodney stone
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To take the pull off the tops, the shrouds are continued round to the mast as "futtock" shrouds, on the same principle as the foretopmast-stay finds its continuation in the bobstay.
Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891
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Together they stood in the foretops and conned the ship in through the seething maelstrom of the equatorial current.
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Reuben Male, Robert Sinclair, and Samuel Honey — Terror's fo'c'sle captain, Erebus's foretop captain, and Terror's blacksmith, respectively — stepped forward.
The Terror
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For Young, the climb to the foretop was the most dangerous and frightening part of the battle:
Castles of Steel
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Orion came round but Colossus was in the course of going about when her foreyard and foretop yard where shot away.
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The foretopsail is smallish and easy to work on because we can stand in the working top on the foremast.
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The puff died away immediately, however, and no damage was done beyond the splitting of the foretopsail.
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Her foretop and funnel lie scattered by the impact of her fall which drove the breeches of her massive 15 in guns through the armoured turret tops.
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During the race, however, the Walters lost its foretopmast and fell behind.
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Nor had Francis Crozier trusted Lieutenant George Henry Hodgson, his captain of the fo'c'sle, Reuben Male, or Erebus captain of the foretop Robert Sinclair since that day of near mutiny back at Hospital Camp more than a month earlier.
The Terror
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Came down the rope like a foretopman, hung all over with jewels: brooches, chains, and owches, you know, -- Scripture, -- kind of rope-walking Tiffany.
Fernley House
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An indication of the relative size of the foretops can be gained from the men on top of the observation level.
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There being no mosquito bars attached to the berths in the forecastle, the foretop was the only place in which I could procure a few hours repose.
Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale
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A silver-hulled ketch was entering the lagoon, a banner draped from its foretop.
RUSHING TO PARADISE
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The foretop and topgallant – mast came down with a run and hung in wreckage on the fore – mast, with the foreyard vertical.
South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917
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Aye, aye, bo, right you were," answered the brawny foretopman as he knocked in the head of another hogshead.
The Penang Pirate and, The Lost Pinnace
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Billy, ‘king of the birds, king of the world,’ also climbs the foretop, shaped rather explicitly as a cross, and hangs from it, like the crucified Jesus, in shining white light.
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Lay out aloft, there, half a dozen of ye -- foretopmaststuns'l!
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At the time, on the gun decks of the Indomitable, the general estimate of his nature and its unconscious simplicity eventually found rude utterance from another foretopman, one of his own watch, gifted, as some sailors are, with an artless poetic temperament; the tarry hands made some lines which after circulating among the shipboard crew for a while, finally got rudely printed at Portsmouth as a ballad.
Billy Budd
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The mizzen-topsail, which was a comparatively new sail and close reefed, split from head to foot in the bunt; the foretopsail went in one rent from clew to caring, and was blowing to tatters; one of the chain bobstays parted; the spritsailyard sprung in the slings, the martingale had slued away off to leeward; and owing to the long dry weather the lee rigging hung in large bights at every lurch.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11
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Strong gales; bore away for the North Channel, carrying away the foretopsail and lost jib; hove the log several times and found the ship going through the water at the rate of 18 to 18 1/2 knots; lee rail under water and rigging slack.
The Old Merchant Marine; A chronicle of American ships and sailors
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All ready for letting fall, sir," the middy stationed in the foretop was the first to sing out.
Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant
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The Macedonian's mizzenmast was gone, her main and foretopmasts carried away, her main yard cut in two, and her ensign had disappeared.
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So, unaware of what they had missed, the voyagers arrived in Bermuda on the evening of April 4, 1873, sliding to anchor at Grassy Bay with the aid of a local pilot standing at the foretop and directing the four men at the wheel.
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Southern hemisphere ships and non-Venn ships of the north were all fore-and-aft rigged, though many had square foretopsails; raffees had square foresails with triangular foretopsails.
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Together they stood in the foretops and conned the ship in through the seething maelstrom of the equatorial current.
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These braces come down to the ship's sides, or to the heads of the masts fore and aft of those on which the yard is swung; all the mizzen-braces working on the mainmast; the maintopgallant, mainroyal and skysail braces working on the mizzenmast; and the foretopgallant and foreroyal braces working on the mainmast, as is clearly shown in our illustration.
Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891
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Her foretopmast had snapped in the middle-just as it had done on her first run two years before!
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I heard him and the Mate talking to the men, and presently, when we were going over the foretop, I made out that they were beginning to get into the rigging.
The Ghost Pirates
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But they were not so young as our foretopman, and no few of them must have known a hearth of some sort; others may have had wives and children left, too probably, in uncertain circumstances, and hardly any but must have had acknowledged kith and kin, while for Billy, as will shortly be seen, his entire family was practically invested in himself.
Billy Budd
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Could a captain of the fo'c'sle, a captain of the foretop, and a blacksmith sail HMS Terror almost two hundred miles south through a maze of leads?
The Terror
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Nor had Francis Crozier trusted Lieutenant George Henry Hodgson, his captain of the fo'c'sle, Reuben Male, or Erebus captain of the foretop Robert Sinclair since that day of near mutiny back at Hospital Camp more than a month earlier.
The Terror
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Such a cynosure, at least in aspect, and something such too in nature, though with important variations made apparent as the story proceeds, was welkin-eyed Billy Budd, or Baby Budd, as more familiarly under circumstances hereafter to be given he at last came to be called, aged twenty-one, a foretopman of the British fleet toward the close of the last decade of the eighteenth century.
Billy Budd
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She was a small fast and shallow draft centerboard schooner and her rig except for foretopmasts and yankee was identical to the Shrewsbury Packets.
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Jack thought they had weathered the worst of it, when the foresheet parted and the clew of the foresail, going through the lower foretopsail, split it in ribbons.
Teddy The Story of a Little Pickle
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The beautiful Billy Budd is a foretopman, ready to climb up the rigging.
Melville in Love
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Together they stood in the foretops and conned the ship in through the seething maelstrom of the equatorial current.
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Hands went scurrying aloft to get in the foretopsail and forecourse, and other hands went to the main braces.
Mr. Midshipman Easy
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The following morning the foretopmast was found to be chafed through, and in the afternoon the foretopsail was split.
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A violent equinoctial gale had come up, which had first staved in a grating and a porthole on the larboard side, and damaged the foretop-gallant-shrouds; in consequence of these injuries, the Orion had run back to Toulon.
Les Miserables
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Together they stood in the foretops and conned the ship in through the seething maelstrom of the equatorial current.
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“Catch his foretop and get on his neck till he balances out!”
CHAPTER IX
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The woman obeyed, digging her toes into the evasive muscle-pads for the quick effort, and leaping upward, one hand twined in the wet mane, the other hand free and up-stretched, darting between the ears and clutching the foretop.
CHAPTER IX
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‘Starboard,’ ‘Port,’ ‘Bowsprit,’ and similar indications of a mutinous undercurrent, though subdued, were audible, Bill Boozey, captain of the foretop, came out from the rest.
A Holiday Romance
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If the close-reefed foretopsail is carried instead of the main, it can be easily filled.
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He pompadoured his foretop rather short and tied a full eagle tail on top of his head as a single ornament.
