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Entry 3 senses Webster, 1913

Foreland

· Fore·land · IPA
01 n. A promontory or cape; a headland; as, the North and South Foreland in Kent, England.
  1. 1.
    A promontory or cape; a headland; as, the North and South Foreland in Kent, England.
  2. 2.
    A piece of ground between the wall of a place and the moat.(Fort.)
  3. 3.
    That portion of the natural shore on the outside of the embankment which receives the stock of waves and deadens their force.(Hydraul. Engin.)