A platform around the head of the lower section of a sailing ship's foremast.
（帆船的）前桅平台
Example sentencesExamples
An indication of the relative size of the foretops can be gained from the men on top of the observation level.
So, unaware of what they had missed, the voyagers arrived in Bermuda on the evening of April 4, 1873, sliding to anchor at Grassy Bay with the aid of a local pilot standing at the foretop and directing the four men at the wheel.
Billy, ‘king of the birds, king of the world,’ also climbs the foretop, shaped rather explicitly as a cross, and hangs from it, like the crucified Jesus, in shining white light.
Her foretop and funnel lie scattered by the impact of her fall which drove the breeches of her massive 15 in guns through the armoured turret tops.
Together they stood in the foretops and conned the ship in through the seething maelstrom of the equatorial current.
Definition of foretop in US English:
foretop
nounˈfɔrtɑpˈfôrtäp
A platform around the head of the lower section of a sailing ship's foremast.
（帆船的）前桅平台
Example sentencesExamples
An indication of the relative size of the foretops can be gained from the men on top of the observation level.
Her foretop and funnel lie scattered by the impact of her fall which drove the breeches of her massive 15 in guns through the armoured turret tops.
Billy, ‘king of the birds, king of the world,’ also climbs the foretop, shaped rather explicitly as a cross, and hangs from it, like the crucified Jesus, in shining white light.
So, unaware of what they had missed, the voyagers arrived in Bermuda on the evening of April 4, 1873, sliding to anchor at Grassy Bay with the aid of a local pilot standing at the foretop and directing the four men at the wheel.
Together they stood in the foretops and conned the ship in through the seething maelstrom of the equatorial current.