forefoot

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fore·foot

(fôr′fo͝ot′)

1. Either of the front feet of a quadruped.

2. Nautical The part of a ship at which the prow joins the keel.

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forefoot

(ˈfɔːˌfʊt)

n, pl -feet

1. (Zoology) either of the front feet of a quadruped

2. (Nautical Terms) nautical the forward end of the keel

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fore•foot

(ˈfɔrˌfʊt, ˈfoʊr-)

n., pl. -feet.

1. one of the front feet esp. of a quadruped.

a. the point at which the stem of a hull joins the keel.

b. a curved member at this point in a wooden hull.

[1325–75]

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Noun

forefoot - a front foot of a quadruped

animal foot, foot - the pedal extremity of vertebrates other than human beings

quadruped - an animal especially a mammal having four limbs specialized for walking

Translations

forefoot

[ˈfɔːfʊt] N (forefeet (pl)) [ˈfɔːfiːt] → pie m delantero, pata f delantera

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

forefoot

[ˈfɔː^rfʊt] n → patte f antérieure

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

forefoot

n → Vorderfuß m

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

forefoot

[ˈfɔːˌfʊt] n (-feet (pl)) → zampa anteriore

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

fore·foot

n. antepié, parte anterior del pie.

English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012

forefoot

n antepié m, parte f anterior del pie

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Above, the sky is stainless blue--blue as the sea itself, which under the forefoot is of the colour and sheen of azure satin.

I do not forget one night, when I should have been asleep, of lying on the forecastle-head and gazing down at the spectral ripple of foam thrust aside by the Ghost's forefoot. It sounded like the gurgling of a brook over mossy stones in some quiet dell, and the crooning song of it lured me away and out of myself till I was no longer Hump the cabin-boy, nor Van Weyden, the man who had dreamed away thirty-five years among books.

"'O the blazing tropic night, when the wake's a welt of light That holds the hot sky tame, And the steady forefoot snores through the planet-powdered floors Where the scared whale flukes in flame.

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"Yonder, among the oak trees," said the tiger, pointing with his forefoot.

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I wake every night and see in my room, intently watching me, a big black Newfoundland dog with a white forefoot."

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I could see the waves boiling white under her forefoot. Immensely tall she looked to me from my low station in the coracle.

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I told him, too, where they were, and how one of them had fallen into a stream and lay there on its back drowned, with its forefoot caught in a forked root.

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The sea was like smoky oil., except where it turned to fire under our forefoot and Whirled back into the dark in smears of dull flame.

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They pick up all the bones and nails in the city.' He stooped to lift its forefoot, and that brought his head within a foot of Kim's.

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He seemed to flatten out and shoot through the air with the very minimum of exertion, and at his forefoot ran Nobs, doing his best to turn him.

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A plunge of the ship ended in a shock as if she had landed her forefoot upon something solid.

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The Lone Wolf must have sprung and missed his hold, for Mowgli heard the snap of his teeth and then a yelp as the Sambhur knocked him over with his forefoot.