forehold
nounEtymology
From fore- (prefix meaning ‘positioned at or near the front’) + hold (“the cargo area of an aircraft or ship”). Hold is a variant of hole (influenced by hold (verb)), from Middle English hole, hol (“perforation, hole; cave, cavern; hiding place, shelter; cell, compartment”), from Old English hol (“hole (in the ground)”), from Proto-West Germanic *hol (“hollow”), from Proto-Germanic *hulą (“depression, hollow; hole”), from Proto-Germanic *hulaz (“hollow”); further etymology uncertain, possibly either from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover; to conceal, hide”) or *ḱewh₁- (“to be strong; to swell”).
- inherited from hole
Definitions
The forward or front part of the hold of a ship.
To hold or believe (something) beforehand
To hold or believe (something) beforehand; to assume; to anticipate, to predict.
- Instead of that he has encountered nothing but harsh criticism, unkindly dispositions, even on the part of his relatives, and he naturally drifted into places and surroundings where legitimate sympathy was not foreheld.
- Or he may call "he who foreholds" the one who wants and receives, rather than the one who confers first: he calls […]
The neighborhood
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA