Crossword-Solution: FORESTAY
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Forestay | n. | A large, strong rope, reaching from the foremast head to the bowsprit, to support the mast. See Illust. under Ship. |
Anagrams
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| FORESTAY | anagram | YETSOFAR |
We have 1 clue for the answer “FORESTAY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| SAIL hoisted on stay from fore mast-head to stem of ship | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and
rolling, with noise.
Hint 2 anagram
OWLLAP
Hint 3 another clue
BATTER ___
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Sentences with FORESTAY (5)
You love in vain? Come, that's too good! Why, you're a fine strapping muscular young fellow—tall and strong as a to'-gall'n'-m'st—taut as a forestay—aye, and a barrowknight to boot, if all had their rights! ROB.
Kear down from the foretop, and Burke and Sandon proceeded to tie a rope round his waist, which they afterwards fastened to the forestay; then, in a way which provoked shouts of laughter from their mates, they gave the unfortunate man a shove, and sent him rolling down like a bundle of dirty clothes on to the forecastle.
Kear down from the foretop, and Burke and Sandon proceeded to tie a rope round his waist, which they afterward fastened to the forestay; then, in a way which provoked shouts of laughter from their mates, they gave the unfortunate man a shove, and sent him rolling down like a bundle of dirty clothes on to the forecastle.
The bow is long, and curves into a lofty stem, like that of a Roman galley, finished with a beak head, to secure the forestay of the mast.
When I last saw him he was still so engaged, but motionless, the lantern under his left arm and his right hand grasping the forestay and the half-knotted lanyard; his eyes staring fixedly down the river, a strange look in his face, half exultant, half perplexed.