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Foremast vs Forepast - What's the difference?

foremast | forepast |

As a noun foremast

is (nautical) (on a ship with more than one mast ) the mast nearest the bow.

As an adjective forepast is

(obsolete) that has passed; bygone.

foremast

English

Alternative forms

* fore-mast

Noun

(en noun)
  • (nautical) (on a ship with more than one mast ) the mast nearest the bow

    • See also

    * mainmast * mizzenmast

    Anagrams

    * *

    forepast

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (obsolete) That has passed; bygone.
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.8:
  • *:Which my liege Lady seeing, thought it best /all forepast displeasures to repeale.
  • *, II.12:
  • *:Of that condition is this other counsell, which Philosophie giveth, onely to keepe forepast .
  • *c.1605 , (William Shakespeare), All's Well That Ends Well , First Folio 1623:
  • *:Take him away, / My fore-past proofes, how ere the matter fall / Shall taze my feares of little vanitie, / Hauing vainly fear'd too little.

    • Synonyms

    * (that has passed) bygone, foregone