headmost

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It was the admiral’s intention not to make the signal of battle but only of defiance, when he had got abreast of the enemy’s headmost ship.

From John Deane of Nottingham Historic Adventures by Land and Sea by Kingston, William Henry Giles

Cobb being the headmost passes the Narrows, but is too late to get over the Falls and obliged to come too in a little cove below.

From Glimpses of the Past History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 by Raymond, W. O. (William Odber)

They well knew that they were but an inferior and subordinate branch of the Glendinnings, bound in perpetual feudal fealty to its headmost representative.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

A shot from the headmost one could now have reached us, but she appeared to be waiting for the other to get up with her.

From The Young Llanero A Story of War and Wild Life in Venezuela by Kingston, William Henry Giles

The breeze was favourable and fresh; but we were clear of the Sound, but a long way astern of the convoy, and none of the headmost men-of-war to be seen.

From Peter Simple by Marryat, Frederick