Fore Topmast - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: fore topmastFore topmast
The mast erected at the head of the foremast and at the head of which stands the fore topgallant mast the mast next above the foremast See Ship...
Fore topgallant
Designating the mast sail yard etc above the topmast as the fore topgallant sail See Sail...
Fore-hand rent
Fore-hand rent, rent payable in advance.A premium paid by tenant on making of lease; esp. on renewal of lease by an ecclesiastical corporation Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 658....
Sloop
A vessel having one mast and fore and aft rig consisting of a boom and gaff mainsail jibs staysail and gaff topsail The typical sloop has a fixed bowsprit topmast and standing rigging while those of a cutter are capable of being readily shifted The sloop usually carries a centerboard and depends for stability upon breadth of beam rather than depth of keel The two types have rapidly approximated since 1880 One radical distinction is that a sloop may carry a centerboard See Cutter and Illustration in Appendix...
foresee
foresee fore·saw fore·seen fore·see·ing : to be aware of the reasonable possibility of (as an occurrence or development) beforehand ...
Brisket
That part of the breast of an animal which extends from the fore legs back beneath the ribs also applied to the fore part of a horse from the shoulders to the bottom of the chest...
Curvet
A particular leap of a horse when he raises both his fore legs at once equally advanced and as his fore legs are falling raises his hind legs so that all his legs are in the air at once...
VerbarManus
The distal segment of the fore limb including the carpus and fore foot or hand...
Patagium
In bats an expansion of the integument uniting the fore limb with the body and extending between the elongated fingers to form the wing in birds the similar fold of integument uniting the fore limb with the body...
Schooner
Originally a small sharp built vessel with two masts and fore and aft rig Sometimes it carried square topsails on one or both masts and was called a topsail schooner About 1840 longer vessels with three masts fore and aft rigged came into use and since that time vessels with four masts and even with six masts so rigged are built Schooners with more than two masts are designated three masted schooners four masted schooners etc See Illustration in Appendix...
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