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foreshore|ˈfɔəʃɔə(r)|
[f. fore- prefix + shore]
1. The fore part of the shore; that part which lies between the high- and low-water marks; occas. the ground lying between the edge of the water and the land which is cultivated or built upon.
1764Skeffling Inclos. Act 13 Land or ground, as a new fore shore to the said river. 1839Stonehouse Axholme 56 Stone heaps which are put out for the defence of the foreshores. 1864J. G. Bertram Notes Trav. 1862–3. 67 The moment the tide runs back the foreshore is at once overrun with a legion of hungry people. 1894Sala Lond. up to date xxiv. 360 Many grand patrician houses existed on this foreshore [of the Thames] from Essex Street down to Hungerford.
transf.1874T. Hardy Madding Crowd II. i. 15 The foreshores and promontories of coppery cloud which bounded a green and pellucid expanse in the western sky.
2. Hydraul. Engin. (See quot. 1874.)
1841S. C. Brees Gloss. Civ. Engin. 34, D, the foreshore. 1873F. Robertson Engineering Notes 61 A slope..terminating in a long nearly level berm called a foreshore. 1874Knight Dict. Mech. I. 905/1 Fore-shore (Hydraulic Engineering) (a), a bank a little distance from a sea-wall to break the force of the surf; (b), the seaward projecting, slightly inclined portion of a breakwater. |