forepart
nounEtymology From Middle English foreparte, forparte, forpart, equivalent to fore- + part. Compare foreparty.
1
The front or anterior part of something.
- The wing being suppos'd placed in the upmost limit, seems to be put so that the plain of it lies almost horizontal, but onely the forepart does dip a little, or is somewhat more deprest […].1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section XXXVIII:
- I became aware that the two were standing on the shore alongside the forepart of the steamboat, just below my head.1902, Joseph Conrad, “Heart of Darkness”, in Youth: A Narrative: And Two Other Stories, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and sons, →OCLC, part II, page 100:
- Related terms
- foreside, forebody, foreship, forecastle