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a.
Guiding; directing; controlling; foremost; as, a leading motive; a leading man; a leading example.
n.
The stay extending from the foot of the foremast to the maintop.
n.
Right of going foremost; precedence.
v. t.
The part of a sail to which the tack is usually fastened; the foremost lower corner of fore-and-aft sails, as of schooners (see Illust. of Sail).
n.
A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.
v. t.
To throw with a jerk; to throw edge foremost.
n.
The movement of a ship backward, or with her stern foremost.
n.
Specifically, a vessel furnished with a bowsprit and three masts (a mainmast, a foremast, and a mizzenmast), each of which is composed of a lower mast, a topmast, and a topgallant mast, and square-rigged on all masts. See Illustation in Appendix.
v. t.
To go or move with one side foremost; to move sidewise; as, to sidle through a crowd or narrow opening.
n.
A three-cornered sail formerly carried on a ship's foremast, probably on a lateen yard.
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of Foreman
v. t.
To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among; as, the big sloop led the fleet of yachts; the Guards led the attack; Demosthenes leads the orators of all ages.
v. t.
A rope used to hold in place the foremost lower corners of the courses when the vessel is closehauled (see Illust. of Ship); also, a rope employed to pull the lower corner of a studding sail to the boom.
n.
A fore-and-aft sail, abaft the foremast or the mainmast, hoisted upon a small supplementary mast and set with a gaff and no boom; a trysail carried at the foremast or mainmast; -- named after its inventor, Knight Spencer, of England [1802].
n.
The front of an army; the first line or leading column; also, the front line or foremost division of a fleet, either in sailing or in battle.
a.
First in time or place; most advanced; chief in rank or dignity; as, the foremost troops of an army.
adv.
In the foremost place or order; among the foremost.
n.
One who takes care of, or tends, machines in a factory; a kind of assistant foreman.
n.
To lay or place over anything so as to partly or wholly cover it; as, to lap one shingle over another; to lay together one partly over another; as, to lap weather-boards; also, to be partly over, or by the side of (something); as, the hinder boat lapped the foremost one.
v. i.
A triangular sail set upon a stay or halyard extending from the foremast or fore-topmast to the bowsprit or the jib boom. Large vessels often carry several jibe; as, inner jib; outer jib; flying jib; etc.
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