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- noun Plural form of
foretopsail .
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In obedience to his instructions he went out, and on the 10th of July, being to windward, with the wind at northeast, formed his line-of-battle, and then stood down to attack the French, who waited for him, with their foretopsails aback [69] on the starboard tack, heading to the northward and westward.
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The main and foretopsails both blew out of their gaskets, bellied for an instant, and then burst from the bolt-ropes and flew away, and were speedily lost to sight.
At Aboukir and Acre A Story of Napoleon's Invasion of Egypt 1867
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