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  1. adjective Located at or toward the front; forward.
  2. adjective Earlier in order of occurrence; former.
  3. noun Something that is located at or toward the front.
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  • In their fore was the Waster, his long black staff raised high above his head. —  The Flight of the Wren
  • Well, it certainly appears that they do not," as the fore-topsail-halliard was started and the yard slid slowly down the mast, leaving the topgallant-sail and royal fully set above it. —  The Pirate Slaver A Story of the West African Coast
  • A general, with titles enough for an hidalgo, was at San Gabriel, and issued a proclamation as long as the fore-top-bowline, threatening destruction to the rebels, but never stirred from his fort; for forty Kentucky hunters, with their rifles, were a match for a whole regiment of hungry, drawling, lazy half-breeds. —  Two Years Before the Mast
  • Our watch haul out the fore, and lay aloft and put two reefs into it, and reef the foresail, and race with the starboard watch, to see which will mast-head its topsail first. —  Two Years Before the Mast
  • I took my place at the fore, and loosed and furled the royal five times between Rainsford Island and the Castle. —  Two Years Before the Mast
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Middle English, beforehand, before, in front of, from Old English; see per1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. I. prep. from Middle English fore, before, in front of, for, on account of, from Anglo-Saxon fore, before (in place, Latin coram, or in time, Latin ante), for, on account of, cf. foran, preposition, before (in time), = Old Saxon fora = OFries. fore = Dutch voor = Old High German fora, Middle High German vore, vor, G. vor = Icelandic fyrir = Swedish för = Danish for = Gothic (Moesogothic) faura, before, for; the longer and more orig. form of for, q. v. II. adv. from Middle English fore, before (in time), from Anglo-Saxon fore, before (in time), aforetime (= Dutch voor = Old High German fora, Middle High German vor, vore, German vor = Danish for, before (in place), för, before (in time), = Swedish för, förr); cf. foran, before (in place) (= Dutch vooraan = Old High German forna, Middle High German vorne, vorn, vornen, vornān, German vorn, before), = Danish foran: see I. Cf. fore, a. III. conj. from fore, adv.: see I. and II. Fore (preposition, adverb, conjunction), as an orig. simple form, has merged with fore, an abbreviation, by apheresis, of afore or before, and is now commonly regarded as such abbreviation, and hence often printed 'fore. Both fore and afore are now only dial, or colloq., before having pushed them out of literary use. See afore, before.
  2. from fore-, prefix; being the prefix (to nouns) written separately, as in fore part. Strictly, as the regular accent in such compounds shows, fore, however written, is still, as always in Middle English and Anglo-Saxon, a prefix or component element, and not an independent adjective; but the accent varies, and as to the manner of writing, whether as a prefix, with or without a hyphen, or as a separate word, usage wavers: forepart, fore-part, and fore part, for example, being used indifferently.
  3. Middle English, also for, from Anglo-Saxon fōr, journey, from faran (preterit fōr), go: see fare, v. Cf. fare, n.
 

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