FOREMAST-MAN
\fˈɔːmastmˈan], \fˈɔːmastmˈan], \f_ˈɔː_m_a_s_t_m_ˈa_n]\
Definitions of FOREMAST-MAN
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A common sailor: a man before the mast. "The Adventure galley took such quantities of cotton and silk, sugar and coffee, cinnamon and pepper, that the very foremast-men received from a hundred to two hundred pounds each."-Macaulay.
By Daniel Lyons
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