forelandn.

Brit.

/ˈfɔːlənd/, U.S.

/ˈfɔrlənd/

Forms: Middle English forlonde, ( farlande), Middle English–1600s forland(e, (1600s furland), 1500s forelonde, forelande, Middle English– foreland.

Etymology: < fore- prefix + land n.¹ Compare Dutch voorland; also Icelandic forlendi land between hills and the sea.

1. A cape, headland or promontory.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > promontory, headland, or cape > [noun]

starteOE

nessOE

snookc1236

head1315

bill1382

foreland?a1400

capec1405

nook?a1425

mull1429

headland?c1475

point?c1475

nese1497

peak1548

promontory1548

arma1552

reach1562

butt1598

promontorea1600

horn1601

naze1605

promonta1607

bay1611

abutment1613

promontorium1621

noup1701

lingula1753

scaw1821

tang1822

odd1869

?a1400 Morte Arth. 880 See ȝe ȝone farlande with ȝone two fyrez.

c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 699 Alle þe iles of Anglesay on lyft half he haldeȝ, & fareȝ ouer þe fordeȝ by þe for-londez [MS reads for-londeȝ].

1478 W. Worcester Itineraries 136 Vnum Forland vocatum le Holyhede.

1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) I. 374 The schippis draif on forland and on craigis.

1556 R. Record Castle of Knowl. 83 The great forelonde of Affrike, commonly called the cape of Good hope.

1671 J. Narborough Jrnl. in Acct. Several Late Voy. (1711) i. 24 At the face of this Foreland lie six rocky Islands.

1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 117 A cape, which..he [Frobisher in 1576] called Queen Elizabeth's Foreland.

1877 L. Morris Epic of Hades i. 35 To where the wave-worn foreland ends the bay.

2. A strip of land in front of something.

a. (See quots.) Esp. in Physical Geography, land deposited by the action of the sea in front of a coast, usually with no intervening water; also, such land forming a cape (cf. sense 1).

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > seashore or coast > [noun] > land deposited before

foreland1580

the world > the earth > land > tract > [noun] > strip > in front of something

foreland1807

1580–1 Act 23 Eliz. c. 13. §2 Certeyne Shelves and Fore~landes..lyeng betwene the Walles and Boundes of the said Marshes..and the River of Thames.

1795 J. Phillips Gen. Hist. Inland Navigation (rev. ed.) Add. 178 The forelands on the north side also are not to be less than thirty feet wide.

1807 Trans. Soc. Arts 26 35 By the erection of a new bank or sea wall they get a foreland to their former estate.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Foreland..a space left between the base of a canal bank, and an adjacent drainage cut or river, so as to favour the stability of the bank.

1896 Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. 7 400 At a later stage transportation of material alongshore begins and the waste from the edge and bottom of the land, together with the river sediment, is built out at certain points in front of the older mainland in deposits of various shapes, which are appropriately grouped together under the general term forelands.

1959 C. A. M. King Beaches & Coasts viii. 261 The Paekakariki coast north of Wellington, where a wide sandy foreland fills in a broad bay in the wide northern part of Cook Strait.

b. Fortification. (See quot. 1853.)

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > earthwork or rampart > [noun] > ground behind rampart > ground between rampart and ditch

foreland1704

lisière1706

berm1729

ledge1729

1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Foreland..the same with Berme.

1717 tr. A. F. Frézier Voy. South-Sea 93 A Berm, or Fore~land, being a small space of Ground between the Wall and the Moat.

1853 J. H. Stocqueler Mil. Encycl. 107/2 Foreland..a confined space of ground between the rampart of a town or fortified place and the moat..Now usually called a berm.

3. Land or territory lying in front.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > [noun] > territory lying in front

foreland1851

1851 J. Kitto Life & Death Our Lord in Daily Bible Illustr. 29 I looked towards the west, and beheld the forelands of Carmel.

1870 Daily Tel. 22 Sept. Alsace and Lorraine..will form a German foreland.

†4. Scottish. ‘A house facing the street, as distinguished from one in a close or alley’ (Jamieson). Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1489 Acta Audit. 149/2 A foreland of ane tennenment liand in þe said Cannoungate.

5. Geology. A firm unyielding block of the earth's crust which is opposed to or partially surrounds an orogenic belt and towards which the folding is inclined.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > [noun] > foreland or hinterland

foreland1907

hinterland1937

1907 W. B. Scott Introd. Geol. (ed. 2) xxiii. 506 In folded mountain ranges three zones may be distinguished: (1) A rigid, unyielding mass which is not folded, (2) the zone of folding, (3) the zone of diminishing action, where the folding gradually dies away or ends in a fault... The side of the range toward which the overturned folds incline is called the foreland, and may be either the unfolded mass or the zone of diminishing action.

1909 H. B. C. Sollas & W. J. Sollas tr. E. Suess Face of Earth IV. xiv. 513 The backland is not the starting-point of an active fold-forming force. The Cambrian beds lie just as undisturbed in the backland of Angara as in the foreland of Laurentia.

1937 S. W. Wooldridge & R. S. Morgan Physical Basis Geogr. vi. 76 The African ‘hinterland’ is believed to have moved northward towards the European ‘foreland’.

1968 R. W. Fairbridge Encycl. Geomorphol. 734/1 The Mediterranean-Alpine-Himalayan belt is double sided, the folds tending to be overthrust against forelands..both to the north and to the south, while in between lie block-faulted collapsed regions.

1970 Nature 28 Nov. 838/2 All of these ‘orogenies’ have resulted in thrusts and overturned folds directed towards the foreland.

6. attributive, in †Foreland-men (see quot. 1666).

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1666 London Gaz. No. 19/4 The Foreland Men, viz. The Colliers of Sandwich, and the several Ports of Thanet, stay in expectation of Convoy.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	foreland
释义	forelandn. Brit. /ˈfɔːlənd/, U.S. /ˈfɔrlənd/ Forms: Middle English forlonde, ( farlande), Middle English–1600s forland(e, (1600s furland), 1500s forelonde, forelande, Middle English– foreland. Etymology: < fore- prefix + land n.¹ Compare Dutch voorland; also Icelandic forlendi land between hills and the sea. 1. A cape, headland or promontory. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > promontory, headland, or cape > [noun] starteOE nessOE snookc1236 head1315 bill1382 foreland?a1400 capec1405 nook?a1425 mull1429 headland?c1475 point?c1475 nese1497 peak1548 promontory1548 arma1552 reach1562 butt1598 promontorea1600 horn1601 naze1605 promonta1607 bay1611 abutment1613 promontorium1621 noup1701 lingula1753 scaw1821 tang1822 odd1869 ?a1400 Morte Arth. 880 See ȝe ȝone farlande with ȝone two fyrez. c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 699 Alle þe iles of Anglesay on lyft half he haldeȝ, & fareȝ ouer þe fordeȝ by þe for-londez [MS reads for-londeȝ]. 1478 W. Worcester Itineraries 136 Vnum Forland vocatum le Holyhede. 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) I. 374 The schippis draif on forland and on craigis. 1556 R. Record Castle of Knowl. 83 The great forelonde of Affrike, commonly called the cape of Good hope. 1671 J. Narborough Jrnl. in Acct. Several Late Voy. (1711) i. 24 At the face of this Foreland lie six rocky Islands. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 117 A cape, which..he [Frobisher in 1576] called Queen Elizabeth's Foreland. 1877 L. Morris Epic of Hades i. 35 To where the wave-worn foreland ends the bay. 2. A strip of land in front of something. a. (See quots.) Esp. in Physical Geography, land deposited by the action of the sea in front of a coast, usually with no intervening water; also, such land forming a cape (cf. sense 1). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > seashore or coast > [noun] > land deposited before foreland1580 the world > the earth > land > tract > [noun] > strip > in front of something foreland1807 1580–1 Act 23 Eliz. c. 13. §2 Certeyne Shelves and Fore~landes..lyeng betwene the Walles and Boundes of the said Marshes..and the River of Thames. 1795 J. Phillips Gen. Hist. Inland Navigation (rev. ed.) Add. 178 The forelands on the north side also are not to be less than thirty feet wide. 1807 Trans. Soc. Arts 26 35 By the erection of a new bank or sea wall they get a foreland to their former estate. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Foreland..a space left between the base of a canal bank, and an adjacent drainage cut or river, so as to favour the stability of the bank. 1896 Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. 7 400 At a later stage transportation of material alongshore begins and the waste from the edge and bottom of the land, together with the river sediment, is built out at certain points in front of the older mainland in deposits of various shapes, which are appropriately grouped together under the general term forelands. 1959 C. A. M. King Beaches & Coasts viii. 261 The Paekakariki coast north of Wellington, where a wide sandy foreland fills in a broad bay in the wide northern part of Cook Strait. b. Fortification. (See quot. 1853.) ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > earthwork or rampart > [noun] > ground behind rampart > ground between rampart and ditch foreland1704 lisière1706 berm1729 ledge1729 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Foreland..the same with Berme. 1717 tr. A. F. Frézier Voy. South-Sea 93 A Berm, or Fore~land, being a small space of Ground between the Wall and the Moat. 1853 J. H. Stocqueler Mil. Encycl. 107/2 Foreland..a confined space of ground between the rampart of a town or fortified place and the moat..Now usually called a berm. 3. Land or territory lying in front. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > [noun] > territory lying in front foreland1851 1851 J. Kitto Life & Death Our Lord in Daily Bible Illustr. 29 I looked towards the west, and beheld the forelands of Carmel. 1870 Daily Tel. 22 Sept. Alsace and Lorraine..will form a German foreland. †4. Scottish. ‘A house facing the street, as distinguished from one in a close or alley’ (Jamieson). Obsolete. ΚΠ 1489 Acta Audit. 149/2 A foreland of ane tennenment liand in þe said Cannoungate. 5. Geology. A firm unyielding block of the earth's crust which is opposed to or partially surrounds an orogenic belt and towards which the folding is inclined. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > [noun] > foreland or hinterland foreland1907 hinterland1937 1907 W. B. Scott Introd. Geol. (ed. 2) xxiii. 506 In folded mountain ranges three zones may be distinguished: (1) A rigid, unyielding mass which is not folded, (2) the zone of folding, (3) the zone of diminishing action, where the folding gradually dies away or ends in a fault... The side of the range toward which the overturned folds incline is called the foreland, and may be either the unfolded mass or the zone of diminishing action. 1909 H. B. C. Sollas & W. J. Sollas tr. E. Suess Face of Earth IV. xiv. 513 The backland is not the starting-point of an active fold-forming force. The Cambrian beds lie just as undisturbed in the backland of Angara as in the foreland of Laurentia. 1937 S. W. Wooldridge & R. S. Morgan Physical Basis Geogr. vi. 76 The African ‘hinterland’ is believed to have moved northward towards the European ‘foreland’. 1968 R. W. Fairbridge Encycl. Geomorphol. 734/1 The Mediterranean-Alpine-Himalayan belt is double sided, the folds tending to be overthrust against forelands..both to the north and to the south, while in between lie block-faulted collapsed regions. 1970 Nature 28 Nov. 838/2 All of these ‘orogenies’ have resulted in thrusts and overturned folds directed towards the foreland. 6. attributive, in †Foreland-men (see quot. 1666). ΚΠ 1666 London Gaz. No. 19/4 The Foreland Men, viz. The Colliers of Sandwich, and the several Ports of Thanet, stay in expectation of Convoy. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?a1400
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