Meanings
nounforebitter (plural forebitters)
plural forebitters
- nauticalA song sung by sailors during leisure time.
"The Dreadnaught," a forebitter (nonworking song), mid-nineteenth century
1985, Tristan Jones, Outward Leg, New York, NY: Hearst Marine Books, →ISBN, page 120
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