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单词 foreyard
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Definition of foreyard in English:

foreyard

nounˈfɔːjɑːdˈfôryärd
  • 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:

foreyard

nounˈfôryärd
  • 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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