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Foghorn

noun

A loud low warning signal that can be heard by fogbound ships. Synonym: fogsignal.

A warning device consisting of a horn that generates a loud low tone.

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"Foghorn" Quotes from Famous Books

... at the same moment. "Can't you shut those children up in some dungeon? They've voices like a foghorn. Ah, Miss Armitage. ...

— A Modern Cinderella • Amanda M. Douglas

... more cattle to your town," said Pierce to a cattle solicitor during the dinner, his voice in righteous indignation resounding like a foghorn through the dining-room, "until you adjust your yardage charges. Listen! I can go right up into the heart of your city and get a room for myself, with a nice clean bed in it, plenty of soap, water, and towels, and ...

— The Log of a Cowboy - A Narrative of the Old Trail Days • Andy Adams

... went in the darkness, baying like a foghorn, straight away to the north. And the loud 'Boo, boo,' became a low 'oo, oo,' and that a feeble 'o-o' and then was lost. They must have gone some miles away, for even with ear to the ground I heard nothing of them, though a mile was easy distance for ...

— Lobo, Rag and Vixen - Being The Personal Histories Of Lobo, Redruff, Raggylug & Vixen • Ernest Seton-Thompson