Definition of "foretopmast" [foretopmast]

• Nautical The mast that is above the foretop. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Fastening one end of a heavy tackle to the windlass, and with the other end fast to the butt of the foretopmast, I began to heave."
• "The maintopmast was over thirty feet in length, the foretopmast nearly thirty, and it was of these that"
• "Captain Doane climbed even higher, seating himself on the stump of the foremast with legs a-straddle of the butt of the foretopmast."