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Also, set ahead . Turn a clock to a later time, as in For daylight-saving time we set the clocks forward . [1600s]

With the scantiest possible provision they had to face a journey of upwards of a thousand miles to Kuruman, but they set forward.

Skipper Zeb, leading the way, set forward at an easy but rapid pace.

In the morning my party set forward over the soaken prairie under a cloudless sky intensely blue.

Sam looked after him, until he turned a corner of the road; and then set forward on his walk to London.

Metcalf set forward with the parson's benediction, and stopped every night with the colonel.

April 25, 2024firkin

[fur-kin ]

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