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forefoot en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From Middle English forefot, forfote, equivalent to fore- + foot.

Meanings

1. Either of the front feet of a quadruped.
2. The front part of a person's foot.
   • I was not even sure I could change it at all, but I was convinced that I had to change my foot plant and land higher on my forefoot, rather than my heel. 2014, Allan Lawrence, Olympus and Beyond, page 100:
3. A piece of timber terminating the keel at the fore end, connecting it with the lower end of the stem.
   • I could see the waves boiling white under her forefoot. 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
forefeet	Number=Plur		lexicographic

Translations (6)

sv framfot (either of the front feet of a quadruped) · pl przednia stopa (either of the front feet of a quadruped) · la antepēs (either of the front feet of a quadruped) · de Vorderfuß (either of the front feet of a quadruped) · fkv etujalka (either of the front feet of a quadruped) · no forfot (either of the front feet of a quadruped)

forefoot en · VERB

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From Middle English forefot, forfote, equivalent to fore- + foot.

Meanings

1. (obsolete, rare) To repair the front area of (a shoe etc).
2. (transitive) To catch (a horse) by binding its front legs together with rope.
   • He took the first one that broke and rolled his loop and forefooted the colt and it hit the ground with a tremendous thump. 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 106:
   • By the time she was twelve, she could flank and mug as well as her brothers, she could forefoot anything that moved, but it didn't matter. 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 51:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
forefooted	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
forefooted	Tense=Past		lexicographic
forefoots	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres		lexicographic
forefooting	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic

Translations (3)

pl skrępować przednie stopy (to bind the forefeet of an animal) · fi sitoa etujalat (to bind the forefeet of an animal) · pl krępować przednie stopy (to bind the forefeet of an animal)