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
One of my great-great-grandfather's earmarks for his cows was a "swallow-fork slit in both ears"; another was a slit under the ear and a "half-penny mark on the foreside of the near ear."
From Home Life in Colonial Days by Earle, Alice Morse
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
The Captain swung quickly down the foreside of the conning-tower, ran forward and peered into the casing in the eyes of the boat.
From H.M.S. —— by Bower, John Graham
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)
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