foreroyal

There was a cry from the foreroyal-yard of "Man overboard!"

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These braces come down to the ship's sides, or to the heads of the masts fore and aft of those on which the yard is swung; all the mizzen-braces working on the mainmast; the maintopgallant, mainroyal and skysail braces working on the mizzenmast; and the foretopgallant and foreroyal braces working on the mainmast, as is clearly shown in our illustration.

Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891 Various

From the bowsprit-head to the vessel's cutwater runs the bobstay, generally of chain, which takes the pull of the foretopmast-stay; and from the bowsprit-head there hangs the spar known as the dolphin-striker, to give the purchase for continuing the pull of the foretopgallant and foreroyal stays round to the cutwater; so that really all the staying starts from the hull, as does the backstay-staying.

Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891 Various

Thus the forestay comes from the foremast-head to the bows; the foretopmast-stay from the foretopmast-head to the bowsprit-head; the foretopgallant-stay from the foretopgallant-rigging to the jibboom-head; and the foreroyal-stay from the top of the royal mast to the end of the flying-jibboom.

Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891 Various

There was a cry from the foreroyal-yard of "Man overboard!"

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There was a cry from the foreroyal-yard of "Man overboard!"

When God Laughs: and other stories Jack London 1896

It was a square section of the bark's foreroyal, painted black around the skull-and-cross-bones design, which had been left the original hue of the canvas.

"Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea Morgan Robertson 1888

"Ready the foreroyal," cried a shrill voice, as if from the clouds; "ready the foreyard," uttered the hoarser tones of a seaman beneath him; "all ready aft, sir," cried a third, from another quarter; and in a few moments the order was given to "let fall."

The Pilot James Fenimore Cooper 1820

The red flag of Sir Gervaise Oakes was run up at the foreroyal-mast-head of the Cæsar, while the white flag of the rear-admiral was still flying at her mizzen.

The Two Admirals James Fenimore Cooper 1820

"Ordinary seaman, Karl Brun," he wrote, "lost overboard from foreroyal-yard in a gale of wind.

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