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forepart

noun

Etymology

From Middle English foreparte, forparte, forpart, equivalent to fore- + part. Compare foreparty.

  1. inherited from foreparte

Definitions

  1. The front or anterior part of something.

    • The wing being suppos'd placed in the upmost limit, seems to be put so that the plain of it lies almost horizontal, but onely the forepart does dip a little, or is somewhat more deprest […].
    • I became aware that the two were standing on the shore alongside the forepart of the steamboat, just below my head.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for forepart. 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