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foredge

foredge is the alternative spelling of fore edge.

Meaning of fore edge

Noun

fore edge (plural fore edges)

  1. The front edge of something.
    • [T]he fore-edge of this is arm'd with a multitude of little bristles, or Tenter-hooks […].1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section XXXVIII
    1. The edge of a book, leaf, or illustration furthest from the backbone.

Forms of foredge

pluralforedges

Questions about foredge

What is foredge the alternative spelling of?
Foredge is the alternative spelling of fore edge.

Words near foredge in the dictionary

  1. foredestining
  2. foredestiny
  3. foredetermination
  4. foredetermine
  5. foredetermined
  6. foredge
  7. foredges
  8. foredid
  9. foredispose
  10. foredisposed
  11. foredisposes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: foredge (page history and authors); fore edge (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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