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foreganger

noun

Etymology

From Middle English forganger, forgangere, from Old English *foregangere, from foregangan (“to go before, precede, go in front of, project, excel”), equivalent to fore- + ganger. Cognate with Scots foregangare (“a foregoer”), Dutch voorganger (“a predecessor, progenitor”), German Vorgänger (“a predecessor, precursor”), Swedish föregångare (“a forerunner, precursor, progenitor”).

  1. inherited from *foregangere✻
  2. inherited from forganger

Definitions

  1. One who or that which goes before

    One who or that which goes before; a forerunner; a harbinger; a predecessor.

  2. A short rope grafted on a harpoon, to which a longer line may be attached.

    • The foreganger is most commonly formed of white or untarred rope , which is stronger and more flexible than tarred rope , consequently more easily extended when the harpoon is thrown

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for foreganger. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA