fore : Idioms & Phrases

• (Naut.), at the fore royal masthead; said of a flag, so raised as a signal for sailing, etc.

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• noun English writer of adventure novels featuring Captain Horatio Hornblower (1899-1966)
  C. S. Forester; Forester.
  

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• noun English writer of adventure novels featuring Captain Horatio Hornblower (1899-1966)
  C. S. Forester; Forester.
  

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• verb make oneself visible; take action
  step forward; come to the fore; step up; come forward; come out.
  
  • Young people should step to the fore and help their peers

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• (Naut.), from stem to stern; lengthwise of the vessel; in distinction from athwart. R. H. Dana, Jr.

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• a reservoir or canal between a mill race and a water wheel; the discharging end of a pond or mill race.

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• (Shipbuilding), the part of a ship forward of the largest cross-section, distinguisched from middle body abd after body.

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• a receptacle in the front of a vehicle, for stowing baggage, etc.

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• the pommel of a saddle. Knight.

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• a cabin in the fore part of a ship, usually with inferior accommodations.

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• . (a) The forward part of the running gear of a four-wheeled vehicle. (b) A small carriage at the front end of a plow beam.

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• (Naut.), the lowermost sail on the foremost of a square-rigged vessel; the foresail. See Illust. under Sail.

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• . Same as Front door.

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• noun the part of a book that faces inward when the book is shelved; the part opposite the spine
  foredge.
  

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• the front edge of a book or folded sheet, etc.

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• an ancestor. Prov. Eng.

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• . (a) The end which precedes; the earlier, or the nearer, part; the beginning.

  I have . . . paid More pious debts to heaven, than in all The fore end of my time. Shak.

  (b) In firearms, the wooden stock under the barrel, forward of the trigger guard, or breech frame.

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• a girth for the fore part (of a horse, etc.); a martingale.

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• a sledge hammer, working alternately, or in time, with the hand hammer.

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• one of the front legs of a quadruped, or multiped, or of a chair, settee, etc.

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Fore" part`, Fore"part` noun (Also<

• Fore part
• Forepart

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1. The part most advanced, or first in time or in place; the beginning.

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• (Naut.), the angle within a ship's bows; the portion of the hold which is farthest forward.

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• a front piece, as the flap in the fore part of a sidesaddle, to guard the rider's dress.

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• noun a carpenter's plane intermediate between a jack plane and a jointer plane
  

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• a carpenter's plane, in size and use between a jack plane and a smoothing plane. Knight.

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• previous perusal. Obs. Hales.

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• in Scotland, rent payable before a crop is gathered.

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• (Naut.), the forward portion of a rowboat; the space beyond the front thwart. See Stern sheets.

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• . (a) A bank in advance of a sea wall, to break the force of the surf. (b) The seaward projecting, slightly inclined portion of a breakwater. Knight. (c) The part of the shore between high and low water marks.

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• that one of the two sights of a gun which is near the muzzle.

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• (Naut.), the tackle on the foremast of a ship.

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Fore" tooth`

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plural Fore teeth

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1. (Anat.) One of the teeth in the forepart of the mouth; an incisor.

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• . (Naut.) See Fore-topmast, in the Vocabulary.

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• a favorable wind. Obs.

  Sailed on smooth seas, by fore winds borne. Sandys.

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• noun either of the anterior pair of wings on an insect that has four wings
  fore wing; forewing.
  

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• the antediluvian world. R. Southey.

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• adjective satellite parallel with the keel of a boat or ship
  

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• noun rig in which the principal sails are fore-and-aft
  

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• (Naut.), not rigged with square sails attached to yards, but with sails bent to gaffs or set on stays in the midship line of the vessel. See Schooner, Sloop, Cutter.

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• noun any sail not set on a yard and whose normal position is in a fore-and-aft direction
  

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• noun a triangular fore-and-aft sail with its foot along the gaff and its luff on the topmast
  gaff topsail.
  

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• noun sailing vessel with a fore-and-aft rig
  

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Fore"-night` noun

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1. The evening between twilight and bedtime. Scot.

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Fore`-top*gal"lant adjective

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1. (Naut.) Designating the mast, sail, yard, etc., above the topmast; as, the fore-topgallant sail. See Sail.

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• noun the topmast next above the foremast
  

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Fore`-top"mast noun

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1. (Naut.) The mast erected at the head of the foremast, and at the head of which stands the fore-topgallant mast. See Ship.

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• noun the topsail on a foremast
  

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Fore`-top"sail noun

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1. (Naut.) See Sail.

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• noun either of the anterior pair of wings on an insect that has four wings
  fore wing; forewing.
  

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• verb make oneself visible; take action
  step forward; come to the fore; step up; come forward; come out.
  
  • Young people should step to the fore and help their peers

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• . (a) In advance; to the front; to a prominent position; in plain sight; in readiness for use. (b) In existence; alive; not worn out, lost, or spent, as money, etc. Irish "While I am to the fore." W. Collins. "How many captains in the regiment had two thousand pounds to the fore?" Thackeray.

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• (Zoöl.), any one of several species of moths belonging to Alypia and allied genera, whose larvæ feed on the leaves of the grapevine.

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