forefoot
noun, verb
Forms forefeet forefoots forefooting forefooted
- noun Either of the front feet of a quadruped.
- noun The front part of a person's foot.
- noun (shipbuilding) A piece of timber terminating the keel at the fore end, connecting it with the lower end of the stem.
- verb (rare, obsolete) To repair the front area of (a shoe etc).
- verb (transitive) To catch (a horse) by binding its front legs together with rope.
Etymology
From Middle English forefot, forfote, equivalent to fore- + foot.
Webster’s 1913
Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “forefoot”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details