foghorn
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editfoghorn (plural foghorns)
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edithorn
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editfoghorn (third-person singular simple present foghorns, present participle foghorning, simple past and past participle foghorned)
- To sound a foghorn
- 2013, Tim Moore, Frost on my Moustache: The Arctic Exploits of a Lord and a a Loafer:
- With the gold evening sun burnishing our strings of signal bunting we foghorned our way up the confidently prosperous quayside of Haugesund
- To shout or bellow in a loud, deep voice
- 1924, Frank Watts, Abnormal Psychology and Education:
- the voice of the teacher foghorned away undisturbed