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FORE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Front part of a vessel or aircraft
Example:
he pointed the bow of the boat toward the finish line
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("fore" is a kind of...):
front (the side that is seen or that goes first)
Holonyms ("fore" is a part of...):
vessel; watercraft (a craft designed for water transportation)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Situated at or toward the bow of a vessel
Classified under:
Similar:
foremost (situated closest to the bow)
Also:
front (relating to or located in the front)
forward (at or near or directed toward the front)
Domain category:
navigation; sailing; seafaring (the work of a sailor)
Antonym:
aft ((nautical, aeronautical) situated at or toward the stern or tail)
III. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Near or toward the bow of a ship or cockpit of a plane
Example:
the captain went fore (or forward) to check the instruments
Synonyms:
fore; forward
Classified under:
Antonym:
aft (at or near or toward the stern of a ship or tail of an airplane)
Context examples:
Then Miss Mills benignantly dismissed me, saying, Go back to Dora! and I went; and Dora leaned out of the carriage to talk to me, and we talked all the rest of the way; and I rode my gallant grey so close to the wheel that I grazed his near fore leg against it, and took the bark off, as his owner told me, to the tune of three pun' sivin'—which I paid, and thought extremely cheap for so much joy.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
“As you know, we’re short a mate. Hereafter you shall stand watches, receive seventy-five dollars per month, and be addressed fore and aft as Mr. Van Weyden.”
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
They were all tied by the neck with strong withes fastened to a beam; they held their food between the claws of their fore feet, and tore it with their teeth.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
“I am quick to love, and quick to hate and 'fore God I am loth to part.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
They are putting the powder and the arms in the fore hold.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Suddenly the snow gave way beneath his fore legs and he sank down.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
The frost was in his feet, and he kept lifting first one fore- foot and then the other.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
He lifted one of Wolf's fore legs and examined the foot-pads, pressing them and denting them with his thumb. "Kind of soft," he remarked. "He ain't been on trail for a long time."
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
We had got fairly abreast of them now, the rumps of the horses exactly a-line and the fore wheels whizzing together.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He crossed the deck, sprang into the fore rigging, and began to climb.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
