Usually means: Upper front part of mast.
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  1. foretop: Merriam-Webster
  2. foretop: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. foretop: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. foretop: Collins English Dictionary
  5. foretop: Vocabulary.com
  6. foretop: Wordnik
  7. foretop: Wiktionary
  8. foretop: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. foretop: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. foretop: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Foretop, foretop: Dictionary.com
  12. Foretop: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. foretop: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. foretop: Rhymezone
  15. Foretop: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. foretop: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. foretop: FreeDictionary.org
  18. foretop: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. foretop: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. foretop: Encyclopedia

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  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (foretop)

noun:  (obsolete) The top of the head; the top of the forehead.
noun:  (obsolete) The lock of hair which grows on top of the forehead; the corresponding part of a wig.
noun:  (obsolete) In the phrase, to take time (or occasion or opportunity) by the foretop, meaning "to boldly seize an opportunity".
noun:  (obsolete) A fop; one who sports a foretop.
noun:  (UK dialectal) An erect tuft of hair.
noun:  The forelock of a horse.
noun:  (nautical) A platform at the top of the foremast, supported by the trestle trees.
noun:  The front seat at the top of a horse-drawn vehicle.

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