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Definition of foreyard in English: foreyardnounˈfɔːjɑːdˈfôryärd The lowest yard on a sailing ship's foremast. Example sentencesExamples - She is not more square-rigged than she is taunt; her foreyards do not measure more than 70 feet.
- Her long foreyards give her a generous spread of squaresails for chasing away before the wind.
- Orion came round but Colossus was in the course of going about when her foreyard and foretop yard where shot away.
- At the same time the look-out man on the foreyard sang out, ‘Breakers a-head.’
- Once the bow has been pushed away from the dock, cast off stern spring, brace around foreyards on a starboard tack.
Definition of foreyard in US English: foreyardnounˈfôryärd The lowest yard on a sailing ship's foremast. Example sentencesExamples - Her long foreyards give her a generous spread of squaresails for chasing away before the wind.
- Orion came round but Colossus was in the course of going about when her foreyard and foretop yard where shot away.
- She is not more square-rigged than she is taunt; her foreyards do not measure more than 70 feet.
- Once the bow has been pushed away from the dock, cast off stern spring, brace around foreyards on a starboard tack.
- At the same time the look-out man on the foreyard sang out, ‘Breakers a-head.’
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