Plural of foreboom; multiple forward-extending spars on a ship used to deploy sails.
Direct plural of foreboom following standard English pluralization. Retains the nautical meaning from its singular form.
While modern sailing is mostly recreational, the vocabulary of traditional rigging is still precise and poetic—'forebooms' sounds like something from maritime poetry, and it describes an actual functional part of ship geometry.
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