foremast

1. 1.

   the mast nearest the bow in vessels with two or more masts

   Broadermast

Other forms of foremast

plural

foremasts·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about foremast

What does foremast mean?

foremast means "the mast nearest the bow in vessels with two or more masts".

How many syllables are in foremast?

foremast has 3 syllables: fo-re-mast. The stress falls on "fo".

Is foremast a common word?

foremast is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.