Definition of "fore-rigging" [fore-rigging]

• The shrouds, and their ratlines, of the fore lower mast. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "I extended the line between the cloudy radiance and the mizzen-topmast and found that it must strike somewhere near the fore-rigging on the port side."
• "Six-feet in length it was, slender, and of substance so attenuated that I had distinctly seen through it the tracery of the fore-rigging."
• "I had seen the thing again, the long, wavering attenuated substance through which could be seen the fore-rigging."