Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The horse in a team which goes foremost.
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Examples
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A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second, that second for a third, and so on 'til the bulk of society is reduced to mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering ... and the forehorse of this frightful team is public debt.
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"'Keep back, sir, as best sets ye,' said the bailie, as Andrew pressed forward to catch the answer to some question I had asked about Campbell; 'ye wad fain ride the forehorse an ye wist how.
The Proverbs of Scotland Alexander Hislop 1836
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"Here am I," he continued, "a man grown, in a girl's leading-strings, 'turned forehorse to a smock,' as Shakspeare calls it.
Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. II. 1832
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