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foghorn
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foghorn
a mechanical instrument sounded at intervals to serve as a warning to vessels in fog

foghorn [′fäg‚hȯrn]
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A horn used as a fog signal.


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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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