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Fore   /fɔr/   Listen
noun
Fore  n.  Journey; way; method of proceeding. (Obs.) "Follow him and his fore."


Fore  n.  The front; hence, that which is in front; the future.
At the fore (Naut.), at the fore royal masthead; said of a flag, so raised as a signal for sailing, etc.
To the fore.
(a)
In advance; to the front; to a prominent position; in plain sight; in readiness for use.
(b)
In existence; alive; not worn out, lost, or spent, as money, etc. (Irish) "While I am to the fore." "How many captains in the regiment had two thousand pounds to the fore?"


adjective
Fore  adj.  Advanced, as compared with something else; toward the front; being or coming first, in time, place, order, or importance; preceding; anterior; antecedent; earlier; forward; opposed to back or behind; as, the fore part of a garment; the fore part of the day; the fore and of a wagon. "The free will of the subject is preserved, while it is directed by the fore purpose of the state." Note: Fore is much used adjectively or in composition.
Fore bay, a reservoir or canal between a mill race and a water wheel; the discharging end of a pond or mill race.
Fore body (Shipbuilding), the part of a ship forward of the largest cross-section, distinguished from middle body and after body.
Fore boot, a receptacle in the front of a vehicle, for stowing baggage, etc.
Fore bow, the pommel of a saddle.
Fore cabin, a cabin in the fore part of a ship, usually with inferior accommodations.
Fore carriage.
(a)
The forward part of the running gear of a four-wheeled vehicle.
(b)
A small carriage at the front end of a plow beam.
Fore course (Naut.), the lowermost sail on the foremost of a square-rigged vessel; the foresail.
Fore door. Same as Front door.
Fore edge, the front edge of a book or folded sheet, etc.
Fore elder, an ancestor. (Prov. Eng.)
Fore end.
(a)
The end which precedes; the earlier, or the nearer, part; the beginning. "I have... paid More pious debts to heaven, than in all The fore end of my time."
(b)
In firearms, the wooden stock under the barrel, forward of the trigger guard, or breech frame.
Fore girth, a girth for the fore part (of a horse, etc.); a martingale.
Fore hammer, a sledge hammer, working alternately, or in time, with the hand hammer.
Fore leg, one of the front legs of a quadruped, or multiped, or of a chair, settee, etc.
Fore peak (Naut.), the angle within a ship's bows; the portion of the hold which is farthest forward.
Fore piece, a front piece, as the flap in the fore part of a sidesaddle, to guard the rider's dress.
Fore plane, a carpenter's plane, in size and use between a jack plane and a smoothing plane.
Fore reading, previous perusal. (Obs.)
Fore rent, in Scotland, rent payable before a crop is gathered.
Fore sheets (Naut.), the forward portion of a rowboat; the space beyond the front thwart. See Stern sheets.
Fore shore.
(a)
A bank in advance of a sea wall, to break the force of the surf.
(b)
The seaward projecting, slightly inclined portion of a breakwater.
(c)
The part of the shore between high and low water marks.
Fore sight, that one of the two sights of a gun which is near the muzzle.
Fore tackle (Naut.), the tackle on the foremast of a ship.
Fore topmast. (Naut.) See Fore-topmast, in the Vocabulary.
Fore wind, a favorable wind. (Obs.) "Sailed on smooth seas, by fore winds borne."
Fore world, the antediluvian world. (R.)


adverb
Fore  adv.  
1.
In the part that precedes or goes first; opposed to aft, after, back, behind, etc.
2.
Formerly; previously; afore. (Obs. or Colloq.) "The eyes, fore duteous, now converted are."
3.
(Naut.) In or towards the bows of a ship.
Fore and aft (Naut.), from stem to stern; lengthwise of the vessel; in distinction from athwart.
Fore-and-aft rigged (Naut.), not rigged with square sails attached to yards, but with sails bent to gaffs or set on stays in the midship line of the vessel. See Schooner, Sloop, Cutter.


preposition
Fore  prep.  Before; sometimes written 'fore as if a contraction of afore or before. (Obs.)





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"Fore" Quotes from Famous Books



... predecessor in office, we think more gladly of the Grant of Donelson, Vicksburg, and Appomattox than of Grant the President, for during his two administrations corruption was rife and bad government to the fore. Financial scandals were so frequent that despairing patriots cried out, "Is there no longer honesty in public life?" Our country then reached the high-water mark of corruption in national affairs. A striking ...
— Historical Essays • James Ford Rhodes
... were dead or ill, as indeed he is—so ill that I rejoice to have brought him home from Mansfeld. It is his duty henceforth to spare himself; he is better employed in his bed than at the Conference. The young doctors must come to the fore and take up the word after us.' Of his opponents and their designs, he said 'They take us for asses, who don't understand their ...
— Life of Luther • Julius Koestlin
... and fiery." These testimonies were the "most material against her," as well as the evidence of the mother of some possessed children, who declared that her daughter had walked up a wall nine feet high four or five times backwards and forwards, her face and the fore part of her body parallel to the ceiling, saying that Betty Horner carried her up. In closing the narrative the archdeacon wrote without comment: "My Lord Chief Justice by his questions and manner of hemming up the evidence seem'd to me to believe ...
— A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 • Wallace Notestein
... head is a sight longer'n mine is, an' I s'pose ye know what's best; but, my boy, let me give ye a little advice: If ye wait till ye find a real gold mine in these here parts, the boy's likely as not to die o' old age 'fore ye find it." ...
— Buffalo Roost • F. H. Cheley
... was then thrown over the neck of a mule, when he would immediately go to the length of his tether, first one end, then the other in the air. While he was thus plunging and gyrating, another lasso would be thrown by another Mexican, catching the animal by a fore-foot. This would bring the mule to the ground, when he was seized and held by the teamsters while the blacksmith put upon him, with hot irons, the initials "U. S." Ropes were then put about the neck, with a slipnoose which would ...
— Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete • Ulysses S. Grant


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