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Afoul   /əfˈaʊl/   Listen
Afoul

adjective
1.
Especially of a ship's lines etc.  Synonyms: foul, fouled.  "A foul anchor"



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"Afoul" Quotes from Famous Books



... new chance to overcome difficulties of the sort that all fighting engineers love to encounter. The Arizona, Gulf & New Mexico Railroad—more commonly known as the A., G. & N. M.—while laying its tracks in an attempt at record-beating, had come afoul of the problem of the quicksand, as already outlined. Three different sets of engineers had attempted the feat of filling up the quicksand, only ...
— The Young Engineers in Arizona - Laying Tracks on the Man-killer Quicksand • H. Irving Hancock

... was half way "Over the Bay," being provided with a pocket pistol charged to the muzzle. He and his two subordinates were pretty well "Shot in the neck" by the time we reached Fort Lafoyette. The consequence of this was that we no sooner came Abreast of the reef in that locality than we got Afoul of it. For getting Afoul of the Rocks we had to Fork over twenty dollars to the captain of a tug boat which came and Snaked us off with a Coil of ...
— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 19, August 6, 1870 • Various



Words linked to "Afoul" :   tangled, run afoul



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