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n. - The spar or pole next above the pole nearest the bow.

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  • Then the fore-topmast would fall, yards would fall.
  • The fore-topmast is a - complainin 'like anythink, I can tell ye, sir.
  • She had lost her fore-topmast and jib-boom during the night, off O'Kosiri.
  • A sorry, pitiful sight she looked, her fore-topmast broken off clean at the cap, her sails shivering in the wind.
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