Forerank

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The first rank; the front row.

    "He was in the forerank of a crowd that gathered when Burke, a surfman, plunged from the east pier and dragged out a drowning boy"

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"He was in the forerank of a crowd that gathered when Burke, a surfman, plunged from the east pier and dragged out a drowning boy"

Etymology

From fore- + rank.

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