Anagrams of: FORETOPMAST

• deep-bodied sooty-black pelagic spiny-finned fish of the northern Atlantic and northern Pacific; valued for food

• located closest to the stern or tail

• prominently forward

• before anything else

• ranking above all others

• preceding all others in spatial position

• situated closest to the bow

• the sound of a step of someone walking

• the act of taking a step in walking

• the distance covered by a step

• the mast nearest the bow in vessels with two or more masts

• a platform at the head of a foremast

• a lock of a horse's mane that grows forward between the ears

• To assemble flying aircraft into formation; to fly in formation.