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foreland(dictionary)

foreland (iou)



foreland noun. ME.
[from FORE- + LAND noun1. Cf. Old Norse forlendi land between hills and sea, Dutch voorland.]
Land other than that customarily granted to tenants of a manor; such land granted temporarily on special terms. Only in ME.
A cape, a headland, a promontory. LME.
R. Recorde The great forlonde of Affrike, commonly called the cape of Good hope.
b. Land deposited by the action of the sea in front of a coast. L19.
A piece of land adjoining a street; a house or tenement facing a street. Scot. L15-L18.
A strip of land in front of something; a strip of land left between the foot of a wall or embankment and an adjacent moat or ditch. L16.
A stretch of borderland. M19.
J. Kitto I looked towards the west, and beheld the forelands of Carmel.
Geology. A stable unyielding block of the earth's crust, against which compression produces a folded mountain range. E20.