forefoot
Noun
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Noun
forefoot (plural forefeet)
- Either of the front feet of a quadruped.
- (shipbuilding) A piece of timber terminating the keel at the fore end, connecting it with the lower end of the stem.
- German: Vorderfuß
forefoot (forefoots, present participle forefooting; past and past participle forefooted)
- (rare, obsolete) To repair the front area of (a shoe etc).
- (transitive) To catch (a horse) by binding its front legs together with rope.
- 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster 2014, p. 51:
- By the time she was twelve, she could flank and mug as well as her brothers, she could forefoot anything that moved, but it didn't matter.
- 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster 2014, p. 51:
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