foreshoots

Noun

foreshoot (plural foreshoots)

1. 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
2. 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

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