foreside
Americannoun
noun
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the front or upper side or part
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land extending along the sea
Etymology
Origin of foreside
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; see origin at fore-, side 1
Example Sentences
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Harry Byrd has belabored AAA's cotton restriction plan hindside, foreside and around the State.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was found that the customhouse rule then in effect measured length between perpendiculars above the upper deck, from "foreside of the main stem" to the "after side of the sternpost."
From The Pioneer Steamship Savannah: A Study for a Scale Model United States National Museum Bulletin 228, 1961, pages 61-80 by Chapelle, Howard I. (Howard Irving)
It was thus, with the light being on the foreside of the sail, that I saw a small hole a little below the foot-rope, through which a ray of the light shone.
From The Ghost Pirates by Hodgson, William Hope
From the foreside of the bulkhead came an uninterrupted hammering and clinking, and now and then a hiss of steam.
From Traffics and Discoveries by Kipling, Rudyard
There’s on the foreside of that castell Twa unicorns sae bra’ to see.
From Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Fourth Series by Sidgwick, Frank
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