Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The shrouds, and their ratlines, of the fore lower mast.
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Examples
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Having instructed Thomas Mugridge as to what he was to do, I clambered into the fore-rigging a few feet.
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I had seen the thing again, the long, wavering attenuated substance through which could be seen the fore-rigging.
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Six-feet in length it was, slender, and of substance so attenuated that I had distinctly seen through it the tracery of the fore-rigging.
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I extended the line between the cloudy radiance and the mizzen-topmast and found that it must strike somewhere near the fore-rigging on the port side.
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For an hour David Grief had been leaning on the rail at the lee fore-rigging, gazing overside at the steady phosphorescence of her gait.
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I extended the line between the cloudy radiance and the mizzen-topmast and found that it must strike somewhere near the fore-rigging on the port side.
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I had seen the thing again, the long, wavering attenuated substance through which could be seen the fore-rigging.
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Six-feet in length it was, slender, and of substance so attenuated that I had distinctly seen through it the tracery of the fore-rigging.
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The answer to this was a gruff ‘All right,’ and the next thing was a heavy crash as the steamer struck a glancing blow with the bluff of her bow about our fore-rigging.
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With such a deck-load, not an unusually large one in those days, the leading trucks attached to the fore-rigging were about half way between the main deck and the foretop.
Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale John Sherburne Sleeper
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