† forebown.1
Obsolete exc. dialect.
a. In plural. The shoulders of a quadruped, as seen from the front; the breast.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [noun] > shoulder > as seen from front
forebows1610
1610 G. Markham Maister-peece i. lii. 110 Bathe all his breast and foreboothes with the oyle of Peter.
1614 G. Markham Cheape & Good Husb. (1623) 86 His dew-lap extending from his neather lip downe to his fore-boothes.
1714 London Gaz. No. 5253/4 Strayed..a Black Mare..a small White Spot between her Forebows.
1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Forbows, the breast of an animal.
b. The beak or prow of a ship.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > fore part of vessel > [noun]
foreshipc1000
stam1336
bilynge?a1400
forestam?a1400
boat-head1485
head1485
prore1489
forecastle1490
steven1512
forepart1526
nose1538
prow1555
stem1555
forebow1569
beak-head1579
galion1604
bow1626
fore-beaka1656
forebudding1811
prora1847
snout1853
forward1892
sharp end1948
1569 T. Stocker tr. Diodorus Siculus Hist. Successors Alexander iii. viii. 115 It is difficile and harde to laye abord about the beake or forebough of a Gallie.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
† forebown.2
Obsolete.
The arched frame in the front of a saddle. (Cf. French arçon.)
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1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Saddle The Toes or Points of the Saddle's Fore-bow press too much the Horse's Side.
1835 D. Booth Analyt. Dict. Eng. Lang. 296 The Saddle has a round knob on the fore-part or Fore-bow, called the Pommel.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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