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foghorn a mechanical instrument sounded at intervals to serve as a warning to vessels in fog foghorn [′fäg‚hȯrn] (navigation) A horn used as a fog signal. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| SAN DIEGO - A Navy warship glided noiselessly out the mouth of the harbor as a fog horn emitted its mournful blast. In Waterway Play, children can build and race boats, create bumps and bubbles, crank fans, activate a lighthouse beacon and fog horn, raise and lower a drawbridge, test their boats in water currents, turn an Archimedes screw to activate the water wheel, and play at the Jumping Jet Landing Pool and the Tide Pool. Merchants' Harbor offers a glimpse of a north Africa wharf area, with cries of sea gulls, a clanging ship's bell, a fog horn, a full-size freighter hull shrouded in fog, and a pile of leather steamer trunks lashed together with rope. |
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