The Sailor's Word-Book / An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc.

by W. H. Smyth

FORE-THWART. The seat of the bowman in a boat.

FORE-TOP. See [Top].

FORETOP-GALLANT-MAST. See [Topgallant-mast], to which may be added its proper sail, yard, and studding-sail.

FORETOP-MAST. See [Top-mast].

FORETOP-MEN. Men stationed in the fore-top in readiness to set or take in the smaller sails, and to keep the upper rigging in order.

FORE-TYE. See [Tye].

FORE-YARD. (See [Yard].) For the yards, sails, rigging, &c., of the [top-mast] and [topgallant-mast] see those two articles.

FORFEITURE. The effect or penalty of transgressing the laws.

FORGE. A portable forge is to be found in every ship which bears a rated armourer; and it can be used either on board or ashore.

FORGE AHEAD, To. To shoot ahead, as in coming to an anchor—a motion or moving forwards. A vessel forges ahead when hove-to, if the tide presses her to windward against her canvas.