foreshoot
foreshoot noun: the leading shoot.
Noun
foreshoot (plural foreshoots)
- The leading shoot.
- When we consider the era in which Plato lived, before the Revelation of Christ had shed the sunbeams of its life and light upon the world, seeing only a foreshoot of the glorious day about to open, and conjecturing obscurely as to the true relationship and destiny of men, we are astonished at the...1845, The Phalanx: Organ of the Doctrine of Association
- Yet they offer no certain guarantees, since just one more all-out war could possibly so weaken the complex and sensitive foreshoot of evolution which is human society that the process might not be able to recover and go on to realize its unimaginable potentialities.1962, The Western Humanities Review - Volumes 16-17, page 315
- An overhang created by an upper level cantilevered over the lower level of a barn; forebay.
- The sketch inclosed is for a barn 42 x 34 feet with 8 feet foreshoot and the same back shed.1890, Carpentry and Building - Volume 12, page 81
- When they drove along under the "foreshoot" the horse lurched sideways and the front wheel caught behind a fence post.1969, The Casselman Chronicle - Volumes 9-17, page 20
Verb
foreshoot (third-person singular simple present foreshoots, present participle foreshooting, simple past and past participle foreshot)
- To go too far forward; overshoot.
- Instantly he gave the rein to his horse, and with panting speed foreshot his little army : in a moment after his beloved Fanny sprang into his arms.1825, Mac Erin O'Tara, Thomas Fitz-Gerald, the lord of Offaley, page 65
- The form of the barrel will, in most cases, compel the rope to "fleet" itself, that is, work upward, as it winds on, maintaining nearly an equal leverage in work, and if it should by accident do this suddenly, or as the seamen say, surge upwards, the men cannot be thrown down by the foreshooting...1852, New York (State) Legislature Assembly, Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York
Forms of foreshoot
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | foreshoots |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | foreshoots |
| present participle | foreshooting |
| past participle | foreshot |
| past | foreshot |
Origin of foreshoot
From fore- + shoot.
Questions about foreshoot
- What does foreshoot mean?
- Foreshoot means the leading shoot.
- What part of speech is foreshoot?
- Foreshoot can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of foreshoot?
- The plural of foreshoot is foreshoots.
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