Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Nautical, a brace attached to a foreyard. See
brace , 9.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Naut.) A rope applied to the fore yardarm, to change the position of the foresail.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun nautical A
rope applied to thefore yardarm , to change the position of theforesail .
Etymologies
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fore- + brace
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Examples
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We stood sleepily in a row with the forebrace in our hands waiting for the next order, and heard in the darkness a scuffly trampling of feet, an exclamation of surprise, sounds of cuffs and slaps, suppressed, hissing whispers: -- 'Ah! Will you!' .... '
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"Well, I've won your grog, Jim," cried one of the marines, who was standing at the forebrace; "I knew he'd never do it."
Newton Forster The Merchant Service Frederick Marryat 1820
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