Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A man shipped before the mast; a forecastleman.
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Examples
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From this one poor hunt, then, the best lance out of all Nantucket, surely he will not hang back, when every foremast-hand has clutched a whetstone.
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From this one poor hunt, then, the best lance out of all Nantucket, surely he will not hang back, when every foremast-hand has clutched a whetstone?
Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855
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From this one poor hunt, then, the best lance out of all Nantucket, surely he will not hang back, when every foremast-hand has clutched a whetstone.
Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855
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From this one poor hunt, then, the best lance out of all Nantucket, surely he will not hang back, when every foremast-hand has clutched a whetstone?
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The house-servant may be more liked and trusted than the out-door servant; but we think, at sea, it is more honourable to be a foremast-hand than to be in the cabin, unless as an officer.
Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore" James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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I should despise myself to take less than falls to the share of the best foremast-hand in a ship, since it would be all the same as owning that I got my deserts.
The Red Rover James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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"That was too hard a question at the time for a skipper to ask of a foremast-hand, so I said nothing, but did a lot of thinking.
The Grain Ship Morgan Robertson 1888
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