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Definition of Foghorn
1. Noun. A loud low warning signal that can be heard by fogbound ships.
2. Noun. A warning device consisting of a horn that generates a loud low tone.
Definition of Foghorn
1. Noun. A very loud low-pitched horn, used especially in lighthouses and on large boats. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Foghorn
1. a horn sounded in a fog to give warning [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Foghorn
Literary usage of Foghorn
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. My Dear Wells by Henry Arthur Jones, Herbert George Wells (1921)
"THE foghorn TUNES UP. MY DEAR WELLS,— I am sometimes tempted to envy those writers
who, like yourself, have gained a world-wide reputation by thinking for ..."
2. Vocal Faults and Their Remedies by William Hammond Breare (1907)
"foghorn QUALITIES A CONTRALTO could not preserve such mouth positions on ...
The tone approached that of the foghorn. REMEDY: Steadier flow of breath ..."
3. A Manual on the Rule of the Road at Sea and Precautionary Aids to Mariners by Daniel Harvey Hayne (1912)
"AUTOMATIC foghorn SOUNDERS. As with all automatic arrangements, they should be
carefully watched in operation. CHARTS, TIDE TABLES, LIGHTS AND BUOY RECORDS, ..."
4. Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States by John William Wallace, United States Supreme Court (1903)
"Then how can it be shown on the part of the bark that the failure to use a
foghorn .certainly contributed in no degree to the collision? ..."
5. A Digest of Cases Relating to Shipping, Admiralty, and Insurance Law: From by Reginald Godfrey Marsden (1899)
"A bell was frequently sounded on board the barque, but no foghorn was used :— Held,
... Ib. The barque was wrong in not using a foghorn as required by the ..."
6. My Dear Wells: Being a Series of Letter by Henry Arthur Jones (1921)
"THE FLAPPER FLAPS AND THE foghorn HOWLS. MY DEAR WELLS,— In my last letter I
dissected 63 of the 537 ..."
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