FOUL

Definitions

1. 1. To make filthy; to defile; to daub; to dirty; to soil; as, to foul the face or hands with mire.
2. 2. To incrust (the bore of a gun) with burnt powder in the process of firing.
3. 3. To cover (a ship's bottom) with anything that impered its sailing; as, a bottom fouled with barnacles.
4. 4. To entangle, so as to impede motion; as, to foul a rope or cable in paying it out; to come into collision with; as, one boat fouled the other in a race.