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foreholds

foreholds is the plural of forehold.

foreholds is the third-person singular simple present indicative of forehold.

Meaning of forehold

Noun

forehold (plural foreholds)

  1. The forward or front part of the hold of a ship.
    • It freezes very hard, and we find it extreamly cold. The next Day, the ſame Weather, we went aboard, and ſcuttled for Flower in the Forehold. The 25th, little Wind at N.E. and froſty Weather, went aboard again, and got out of the Forehold eight Barrels of Flower, one Cask of Peaſe, with ſome Brandy...1743, John Bulkeley, John Cummins, A Voyage to the South-Seas, in the Years 1740–1. Containing, a Faithful Narrative of the Loss of His Majesty’s Ship the Wager on a Desolate Island in the Latitude...

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Questions about foreholds

What is foreholds the plural of?
Foreholds is the plural of forehold.

Words near foreholds in the dictionary

  1. forehocks
  2. forehold
  3. foreholden
  4. foreholding
  5. foreholdings
  6. foreholds
  7. forehood
  8. forehoods
  9. forehoof
  10. forehoofs
  11. forehook

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