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noun

Foreland n.

A promontory or cape; a headland; as, the North and South Foreland in Kent, England.

(Fort.) A piece of ground between the wall of a place and the moat.

(Hydraul. Engin.) That portion of the natural shore on the outside of the embankment which receives the stock of waves and deadens their force.

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... a wave of his paw, "just clear of that bluff foreland where the gap opens with the ...

— Captain Brand of the "Centipede" • H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise

... explosives (to which he owed his sudden chance of engagement)—dynamite in cases and blasting powder in barrels—taken on board, main hatch battened for sea, cook restored to his functions in the galley, anchor fished and the tug ahead, rounding the South Foreland, and with the sun sinking clear and red down the purple vista of the channel, he went on the poop, on duty, it is true, but with time to take the first freer breath in the busy day of departure. The pilot was still on board, who gave him first a ...

— Chance • Joseph Conrad

... made the Crane their messenger—The fitful Crane whose thoughts are always frightening her She slipped from Islet to Isle, she sloped from Foreland to Coast; She passed through cracks in the mountains and came over trees like a ghost; And then fled back in dismay when she saw on the hollow plains The final battle between the ...

— The King of Ireland's Son • Padraic Colum

... land we made, it is called the Deadman, Next Ram Head, off Plymouth, Start, Portland, and the Wight; We sail-ed by Beachy, By Fairly and Dungeness, And then bore away for the South Foreland light. ...

— Poor Jack • Frederick Marryat

... that apathy and indifference which violent sea-sickness is sure to produce. We shipped several seas, and once the vessel missing stays—which, to do it justice, it generally did at every third or fourth tack—we escaped almost by a miracle from being dashed upon the foreland. On the eighth day of our voyage we were in sight of Ireland. The weather was now calm and serene, the sun shone brightly on the sea and on certain green hills in the distance, on which I descried what at first sight ...

— Lavengro - The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest • George Borrow

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