释义 |
fore-foot, n.|ˈfɔəfʊt| [f. fore- prefix + foot. The stress is variable, the prefix being often felt as an adj.] 1. One of the front feet of a quadruped.
1481Caxton Reynard (Arb.) 18 He had loste his eeris and the skynne wyth the clawes of his forefeet. 1525Ld. Berners Froiss. II. 312 a, The grayhounde..wolde..leape with his fore fete vpon the Kynges shulders. 1604Breton Pass. Sheph. Past. iii. 26 To see..the little black-haird Cony..With her fore-feete wash her face. 1697Lond. Gaz. No. 3330/4 Throws his fore Foot out like a Turky Horse. 1770G. White Selborne xxviii. 79 From the fore⁓feet to the belly behind the shoulder, it [the moose-deer] measured three feet and eight inches. 1834McMurtrie Cuvier's Anim. Kingd. 60 The long claws of their fore-feet enable them to dig with great effect. 1869Dunkin Midn. Sky 16 The Great Bear's right fore-foot. †b. jocularly. The hand.
1599Shakes. Hen. V, ii. i. 71 Giue me thy fist, thy fore⁓foote to me giue. 2. Naut. ‘The foremost piece of the keel, or a timber which terminates the keel at the forward extremity, and forms a rest for the stem's lower end’ (Adm. Smyth).
[1644H. Manwayring Sea-mans Dict. sv., There is no such place of a ship which is termed her fore-foote; but..when two ships saile, so that one doth lie with her stem so much a-weather the other, that keeping their courses, that ship which doth so lie, will goe-out a head with the other, then we say, that she doth lie with the fore-foote of the other, as she stands or comes with her fore-foote..so that this word fore-foote, implies no more, but one ships lying, or sayling a-crosse an other ships way.] 1770Chron. in Ann. Reg. 153/1 She hung upon this rock by the fore-foot, her stern being amazingly depressed. 1840R. H. Dana Bef. Mast xviii. 51 We saw a..whale, slowly crossing our fore-foot. |