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Foghorn

noun
1.
A loud low warning signal that can be heard by fogbound ships.  Synonym: fogsignal.
2.
A warning device consisting of a horn that generates a loud low tone.






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"Foghorn" Quotes from Famous Books



... couldn't find nobody like Abner,—not in this State. Now it may strike ye, gents, that I am not much of a sailor neither, to be driftin' about here at night in this fog instead of anchorin' and tootin' a foghorn; but ye see, I did anchor in the fore part of the night, and after Abner had gone to his bunk—we don't keep regular watches, but kinder divide the night between us, when we are out on the bay, which isn't common, for we like to tie up at night, and do our sailin' in the daytime—it struck ...
— The House of Martha • Frank R. Stockton

... Frog-face and Flathead and Farinaceous and Freezone and Flapdoodle and Foghorn. By the joviality of their insults Babbitt knew that he had been taken back to their ...
— Babbitt • Sinclair Lewis



Words linked to "Foghorn" :   warning signal, signaling device, fogsignal, alarum, alarm, diaphone, alert, horn



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