forefoot
Americannoun
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forefeet
plural
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Zoology. one of the front feet of a quadruped, an insect, etc.
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Nautical.
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the point at which the stem of a hull joins the keel; the forward end of a keel.
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a curved member at this point in a wooden hull.
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noun
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either of the front feet of a quadruped
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nautical the forward end of the keel
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of forefoot
First recorded in 1325–75, forefoot is from the Middle English word forfot, forefote. See fore-, foot
Example Sentences
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Unlike the forefoot, which makes contact with the ground only through its hooves, the hind feet also included a fleshy heel pad behind the hooves.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 30, 2025
Her custom track shoes, meanwhile, feature six spikes instead of the regular five and more cushion under the forefoot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2025
Johns owns two pairs of electronic socks from Snow Deer, which heat the toes and forefoot zone.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 23, 2024
Adidas say they feature "a revamped geometry with a first-of-its-kind forefoot rocker, placed at 60% of the length of the shoe, to trigger forward momentum and improve running economy".
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2023
I hope Uncle Pumblechook’s mare mayn’t have set a forefoot on a piece o’ ice, and gone down.”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
Then the researchers calculated how various limb phases, or measurements of the time lag between forefeet and hindfeet, fit onto the trackways.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 2, 2022
"They were all typical forefeet impressions as if the animal had just been barely kicking bottom."
From Fox News ● Jan. 28, 2020
After all, goes the theory, if we were barefoot, and our feet and bodies were not ravaged by years of misuse and disuse, we would run on our forefeet like the Tarahumara Indians.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 9, 2014
They wanted to land lightly on their forefeet, or they wouldn’t be in FiveFingers, but there was a disconnect between their intentions and their actual movements.
From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2011
When he was all afoot his scaled head, spike-crowned and triple-tongued, rose higher than the broken tower’s height, and his taloned forefeet rested on the rubble of the town below.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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