† foreworkn.
Obsolete.
A ‘work’ or defensive structure in the front of a building or fortified place.
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forewallOE
barrace1380
before-wallinga1382
vaumurec1475
faussebraie1490
forework1497
vauntmure1562
counterguard1591
forefence1609
forefight?1611
outworkc1615
crownwork1638
false braye1645
crowned work1677
1497 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 334 The bigging of the fore werk of Dunbar.
1502 Acc. in Lib. Cart. S. Crucis (1840) lvi To Walter Merlioun, mason, in part payment of his task of the foirwerk and the new hall in Halyrudhous.
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