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foghorn

[fog-hawrn, fawg-] / ˈfɒgˌhɔrn, ˈfɔg- /
NOUN
warning signal
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That night it rained and the light station’s modern foghorn sounded every 30 seconds, as it routinely does from October to April.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2024

To the human ear, the hum might sound like a single note on a French horn or a foghorn.

From Science Daily • Jan. 3, 2024

Once a prehistoric denizen of the deeps, it comes ashore on a tsunami tide, tall as a thunderhead, shrugging off artillery as it bellows a foghorn scream.

From Scientific American • Nov. 3, 2023

Coast Guard Station Southwest Harbor, which is responsible for the navigational aid, removed the light for repairs on Monday and is still working on getting the foghorn working, he said.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 2, 2023

Far to the north a foghorn groaned, reaching them less as a sound than as a trembling in their bellies, as if their bodies were pipes in a somber old organ.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart



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