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forefoot

forefoot noun: either of the front feet of a quadruped.

Noun

forefoot (plural forefeet)

  1. Either of the front feet of a quadruped.
  2. The front part of a person's foot.
    • I was not even sure I could change it at all, but I was convinced that I had to change my foot plant and land higher on my forefoot, rather than my heel.2014, Allan Lawrence, Olympus and Beyond, page 100
  3. A piece of timber terminating the keel at the fore end, connecting it with the lower end of the stem.
    • I could see the waves boiling white under her forefoot.1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC

Verb

forefoot (third-person singular simple present forefoots, present participle forefooting, simple past and past participle forefooted)

  1. (obsolete, rare) To repair the front area of (a shoe etc).
  2. (transitive) To catch (a horse) by binding its front legs together with rope.
    • He took the first one that broke and rolled his loop and forefooted the colt and it hit the ground with a tremendous thump.1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 106
    • By the time she was twelve, she could flank and mug as well as her brothers, she could forefoot anything that moved, but it didn't matter.2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 51

forefoot meaning in Kannada

forefoot in Kannada

ಮುಂಗಾಲು, ಮುಂದಡಿ

Forms of forefoot

Noun
pluralforefeet
Verb
third-person singular presentforefoots
present participleforefooting
past participleforefooted
pastforefooted

Plural of forefoot: forefeet

Origin of forefoot

From Middle English forefot, forfote, equivalent to fore- + foot.

Questions about forefoot

What does forefoot mean?
Forefoot means either of the front feet of a quadruped.
What is forefoot in Kannada?
Forefoot in Kannada is ಮುಂಗಾಲು, ಮುಂದಡಿ. See Forefoot meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is forefoot?
Forefoot can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of forefoot?
The plural of forefoot is forefeet.

Words near forefoot in the dictionary

  1. foreflippers
  2. foreflow
  3. foreflowed
  4. foreflowing
  5. foreflows
  6. forefoot
  7. forefooted
  8. forefooting
  9. forefoots
  10. foreform
  11. foreformed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: forefoot (page history and authors); forefoot (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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