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foresides

foresides is the plural of foreside.

Meaning of foreside

Noun

foreside (plural foresides)

  1. The front or fore part of anything; front face of a thing; front side.
    • An upcast fault is when the seam is thrown up; to counteract this a "canch" of top stone must be taken down outbye over from the fault, and a "canch" of bottom stone taken up inbye over from the fault, then level up to the bottom of your "canch" at the foreside of the hitch outbye over until you...1879, William Bailes, Student's Guide to the Principles of Coal & Metal Mining, page 17
  2. The outside or external covering.
    • Now when these Counterfeits were thus uncased
      Out of the foreside of their forgerie1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Questions about foresides

What is foresides the plural of?
Foresides is the plural of foreside.

Words near foresides in the dictionary

  1. foreshowing
  2. foreshowings
  3. foreshown
  4. foreshows
  5. foreside
  6. foresides
  7. foresight
  8. foresighted
  9. foresightedly
  10. foresightedness
  11. foresightful

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