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noun

Forefoot n.

One of the anterior feet of a quadruped or multiped; usually written fore foot.

(Shipbuilding) A piece of timber which terminates the keel at the fore end, connecting it with the lower end of the stem.

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Etymology of 'Forefoot'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Forefoot" Quotes from Famous Books

... and earth like a frozen bubble under the moon. All was still, till near by, behind the wall of a corral for the camp animals, built roughly of loose stones in the form of a circle, a pack mule stamped his forefoot and ...

— Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard • Joseph Conrad

... I went forth, eager to know the result. I soon came on the fresh trail of the robbers, with Lobo in the lead—his track was always easily distinguished. An ordinary wolf's forefoot is 4 1/2 inches long, that of a large wolf 4 3/4 inches, but Lobo's, as measured a number of times, was 5 1/2 inches from claw to heel; I afterward found that his other proportions were commensurate, for he stood ...

— Wild Animals I Have Known • Ernest Thompson Seton

... had an opportunity of examining, with the severest scrutiny, the beautiful run of the vessel, as she sat graceful as a diver, and appeared, like that aquatic bird, ready to plunge in at a moment, and disappear under the wave cleft by her sharp forefoot, ...

— The King's Own • Captain Frederick Marryat

... Their statements are sworn to before magistrates in presence of witnesses, and duly attested. C states that he got the skin from B, and gave it to the Nawab of Rampur[18] for a hookah carpet, but that he took from the left forefoot two of the claws, and gave them to the minister of the King of Oudh for a charm for ...

— Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official • William Sleeman

... our bedding in the bows, among the sleeping Lascars, to catch any breeze that the pace of the ship might give us. The sea was like smoky oil, except where it turned to fire under our forefoot and whirled back into the dark in smears of dull flame. There was a thunderstorm some miles away: we could see the glimmer of the lightning. The ship's cow, distressed by the heat and the smell of the ape-beast in the cage, lowed unhappily from time to time in exactly the same key as the lookout ...

— The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition • Rudyard Kipling

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