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forewalk en · VERB · etymology 1
Etymology
From Middle English forwalken.
Meanings
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of forwalk.
[…] they wear away with continuance, even as time doth wear and forewalk us; […]
1815, Thomas Nash, Christ's tears over Jerusalem:
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forewalk en · NOUN · etymology 2
Etymology
From fore- + walk.
Meanings
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(no-plural) A gangway.
One of the objections raised was that the gangway or forewalk which was the major part of the scheme was used as a promenade by the public- with a resultant loss of privacy to some of the frontages.
1955, The British journal of administrative law: Volume 2A gate opens into the Forewalk overhung by the arching branches of more fine beeches, among the roots of which spring numerous clumps of glistening holly.
1877, George Barnard, Drawing from nature:
forewalk en · VERB · etymology 2
Etymology
From fore- + walk.
Meanings
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(intransitive, rare, transitive) To walk before or ahead of.
Now when the Merman had shown him the people of the city, he carried him forth therefrom and forewalked him to another city, which he found full of folk, both males and females, formed like the women aforesaid and having tails; [...]
1894, Leonard C. Smithers, The book of the thousand nights and a night: Volume 7:
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