foreway
nounEtymology From fore- + way.
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Northern England, Dialectal A highroad.
- I got a whisper of this; so by my song, I was determined to cut them all out in that, as well as I did in getting herself; but you know, I couldn't be angry, even if they had got the foreway of me in it, bekase it's an ould custom.1852, William Carleton, Traits and stories of the Irish peasantry:
- Provided that old Gilligan had not more horse sense than yourself and got the foreway of you," says I, [...]1902, Pearson's magazine, volume 13:
3
Of a vehicle The part of a cart or vehicle intended to ensure that the end-thrust is taken against the shoulder collar rather than the linch-pin.