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FACTOR to To FALL a-stern
To FALL calm to FETCHING the pump
FID to FIRE-SHIP
FISH to To FLAT-IN
To FLAT-IN FORWARD to FLUSH
FLY of an ensign to FORE-CASTLE
FORE-CAT-HARPINS to FORE-STAY
FORE-CAT-HARPINS
FORE-FOOT
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FORELAND
FORE-LOCK
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FORE-TOP to FOTHERING
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FORE-FOOT
FORE-FOOT. (brion, Fr.) a piece of timber which terminates the keel at the fore-end. It is connected by a scarf to the extremity of the keel, of which it makes a part: and the other end of it, which is incurvated upwards into a sort of knee or crotch, is attached to the lower end of the stem: of which it also makes a part, being also called the gripe.As the lower arm of the fore-foot lies on the same level with the keel, so the upper one coincides with the middle line of the stem: it's breadth and thickness therefore correspond to the dimensions of those pieces, and the heel of the cut-water is scarsed to it's upper end.
The form of this piece, and it's disposition and connection with the adjacent pieces, appears by the letter i, in plate I. PIECES of the HULL.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 132, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/0559.html