FOREFOOT (forefeet)

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Irregular inflected form: forefeet   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does forefoot mean? 

• FOREFOOT (noun)
  The noun FOREFOOT has 1 sense:

1. a front foot of a quadruped

  Familiarity information: FOREFOOT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOREFOOT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A front foot of a quadruped

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("forefoot" is a kind of...):

animal foot; foot (the pedal extremity of vertebrates other than human beings)

Holonyms ("forefoot" is a part of...):

quadruped (an animal especially a mammal having four limbs specialized for walking)

 Context examples 

"Yonder, among the oak trees," said the tiger, pointing with his forefoot.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

I could see the waves boiling white under her forefoot.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Above, the sky is stainless blue—blue as the sea itself, which under the forefoot is of the colour and sheen of azure satin.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The ass placed himself upright on his hind legs, with his forefeet resting against the window; the dog got upon his back; the cat scrambled up to the dog’s shoulders, and the cock flew up and sat upon the cat’s head.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Johnson I found lying full length on the forecastle head, staring at the troubled churn of the forefoot, and I remembered with horror the suggestion Wolf Larsen had made.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I noted the gurgling forefoot was very like a snore, and as I listened to it the effect of Wolf Larsen’s swift rush from sublime exultation to despair slowly left me.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I do not forget one night, when I should have been asleep, of lying on the forecastle-head and gazing down at the spectral ripple of foam thrust aside by the Ghost’s forefoot.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)