foreshipとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

foreship (plural foreships)

1. (archaic) The fore part of a ship.

   Synonym: forecastle

   • 1881, Thomas Firminger Thiselton Dyer, The Will-O'-The-Wisp and its Folk-Lore:

     He adds that, if the first light appears on the foreship and ascends upward, it is a sign of good luck; if either light begins at the topmast and descends toward the sea, it is a sign of a tempest.

   • 2016, Anders Winroth, The Age of the Vikings:

     The foreship was now left standing in open air while the aft half was covered by half a grave mound. The grave chamber could be seen as a gaping hole in the side of the half-mound.

関連する語

• forebody
• forepart
• foreside

参照

• “foreship”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• ropefish