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foul
1. Nautical (of the bottom of a vessel) covered with barnacles and other growth that slow forward motion
2. Sport
a. a violation of the rules
b. (as modifier): a foul shot


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Your anchor must drop from the bow of your ship with no turn of cable on any of its limbs, else you would be riding to a foul anchor.
The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context
Because it was summer, when it is so beautiful out in the fields, the little town presented a particularly dismal appearance with its broken roofs and fences, its foul streets, tattered inhabitants, and the sick and drunken soldiers wandering about.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
As a matter of fact, the mob was playing in exceedingly foul fashion.
The Gambler by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
 
 
 
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