English
forelock
Noun

forelock (plural forelocks)

  1. The part of a person's hairstyle which covers the forehead.
    • 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book IV, lines 300-303, [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost_(1674)/Book_IV]
      His fair large front and eye sublime declared / Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks / Round from his parted forelock manly hung / Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad:
    • 1734, The Koran: Commonly Called the Alkoran of Mohammed, translated by George Sale, Sura 96, Congealed Blood,
      Doth he not know that GOD seeth? / Assuredly. Verily, if he forbear not, we will drag him by the forelock, / the lying, sinful forelock. / And let him call his council to assistance: / we also will call the infernal guards to cast him into hell.
    • 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, XXXVIII,
      Warm with the blood of lads I know / Comes east the sighing air. / / It fanned their temples, filled their lungs, / Scattered their forelocks free;
    • 1978, Edmund White, Nocturnes for the King of Naples, New York: St. Martin's Press, Chapter VIII, p. 135,
      This little boy, still flicking his head to one side between sentences though the long blond forelock that once excused the tic had been cut […]
  2. The part of a horse's (or similar animal's) mane that lies on its forehead.
    • 1898, Ivan Turgenev, in A Lear of the Steppes and Other Stories, translated by Constance Garnett, New York: Macmillan: 1898, p. 146,
      […] the gates themselves slowly parted, there appeared a large horse's head, with a plaited forelock under a decorated yoke, and slowly there rolled into the road a small cart, like those driven by horse-dealers, and higglers.
Synonyms Translations Translations
  • Italian: ciuffo
  • Russian: чёлка
Noun

forelock (plural forelocks)

  1. A wedge pushed through a hole at the end of a bolt to hold it in place.
Verb

forelock (forelocks, present participle forelocking; past and past participle forelocked)

  1. To fix in place with a forelock (wedge)


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