headmost
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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 W. O. (William Odber) Raymond
The two headmost French ships then tacked, one placing herself alongside to windward, and the other on the Glatton’s bow, while the other ships engaged her on her lee-quarter and stern.
From How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 by William Henry Giles Kingston
As they required to make several tacks for this purpose, it was past one o'clock before the headmost ships could clear Cabrita Point, when they brought to, to wait for the others to join them.
From Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez, Vol. I by Sir John Ross
The English fleet bore up in chase; and, although the Prince of Wales was the worst-sailing ship in the fleet, by carrying a great press of sail she became the headmost.
From Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez. Vol II by Sir John Ross
“Don’t any of you fire till I tell you,” he said to his men, while he took aim so as to strike the ground a few yards in front of the headmost of the party.
From The Three Commanders by Thomas Cantrell Dugdale
