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Definition of Forefoot
1. Noun. A front foot of a quadruped.
Definition of Forefoot
1. n. One of the anterior feet of a quadruped or multiped; -- usually written fore foot.
Definition of Forefoot
1. Noun. Either of the front feet of a quadruped. ¹
2. Noun. (context: shipbuilding) A piece of timber terminating the keel at the fore end, connecting it with the lower end of the stem. ¹
3. Verb. (transitive) To catch (a horse) by binding its front legs together with rope. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Forefoot
1. one of the front feet of an animal [n -FEET]
Medical Definition of Forefoot
1. A front foot of a quadruped. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Forefoot
Literary usage of Forefoot
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Strange Adventures of Andrew Battell of Leigh, in Angola and the by Andrew Battel, Samuel Purchas, Anthony Knivet (1901)
"They are the biggest creature in this country, except the elephant. They have
great virtue in the claws of their left forefoot, ..."
2. The Life and Letters of George Bancroft by Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe (1908)
"To make things worse, his horse, as he rode with friends in the forest, stepped
his forefoot into a mud hole, stumbled forward, threw Bismarck and keeled ..."
3. Transactions of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects by Royal Institution of Naval Architects (1879)
"some size of rudder, in the tideway of Liverpool, with the river crammed full of
shipping, than one 100 feet shorter without the forefoot cut off. ..."
4. The Canadian Record of Science by Natural History Society of Montreal (1903)
"The figures show the relative positions of the hind and forefoot. ... The forefoot
in a series of footmarks is not so near the hind as here represented, ..."
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