Foreside
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The front or fore part of anything; front face of a thing; front side.
"An upcast fault is when the seam is thrown up; to counteract this a "canch" of top stone must be taken down outbye over from the fault, and a "canch" of bottom stone taken up inbye over from the fault, then level up to the bottom of your "canch" at the foreside of the hitch outbye over until you have a regular gradient to the seam on the hitch."
- 2 The outside or external covering.
"Now when these Counterfeits were thus uncased Out of the foreside of their forgerie"
Example
More examples"An upcast fault is when the seam is thrown up; to counteract this a "canch" of top stone must be taken down outbye over from the fault, and a "canch" of bottom stone taken up inbye over from the fault, then level up to the bottom of your "canch" at the foreside of the hitch outbye over until you have a regular gradient to the seam on the hitch."
Etymology
From Middle English forside, equivalent to fore- + side. Cognate with Dutch voorzijde, German Vorseite, Danish forside.
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