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noun

Foreland n.

A promontory or cape; a headland; as, the North and South Foreland in Kent, England.

(Fort.) A piece of ground between the wall of a place and the moat.

(Hydraul. Engin.) That portion of the natural shore on the outside of the embankment which receives the stock of waves and deadens their force.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Foreland" Quotes from Famous Books

... many a curve my bank I fret By many a field and fallow, And many a fairy foreland set With ...

— New National Fourth Reader • Charles J. Barnes and J. Marshall Hawkes

... cap rises off the 'Summer-house hill,' that eight hundred feet of upright wall, which seems ready to topple down into the nest of be-myrtled cottages at its foot; and as we sweep out into the deeper water the last mist-flake streams up from the Foreland, and vanishes in white threads into ...

— Prose Idylls • Charles Kingsley

... in the mouth of the Colne, and would therefore have no difficulty in making the Foreland; and with her sail set and her oars out the Dragon dashed away from her moorings. Swiftly they ran round the south-easterly point of England and then flew before the breeze along the southern coast. On the third day they were ...

— The Dragon and the Raven - or, The Days of King Alfred • G. A. Henty

... that common English that is spoken in one shire varyeth from another. In-so-much that in my days it happened that certain merchants were in a ship in Thames, for to have sailed over the sea into Zealand. For lack of wind they tarried at Foreland, and went to land ...

— English Literature For Boys And Girls • H.E. Marshall

... between. Battered by the breaking crests, whelmed at times by "green seas," staggering like a drunken thing, and buffeted by the fierce gale, but never giving way an inch, onward, steadily if slowly, until she rounded the North Foreland. Then the rescuers saw the signals going up steadily, regularly, from the two lightships. No cessation of these signals until they should be answered ...

— Battles with the Sea • R.M. Ballantyne

... Foreland, on the south side of the straits, was in sight at noon, distant, we presumed,—from our estimate of the width of the passage at this place,—about eleven leagues. It is a high, bold promontory of the south main of Labrador. At this distance it rises ...

— Left on Labrador - or, The cruise of the Schooner-yacht 'Curlew.' as Recorded by 'Wash.' • Charles Asbury Stephens

Words linked to "Foreland" : earth, Abyla, land, mull, promontory, Gibraltar, Rock of Gibraltar, Cape Horn, Cape Hatteras, Abila, Jebel Musa, Cape Canaveral