FOREQUARTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does forequarter mean? 

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

1. the front half of a side of meat

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOREQUARTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The front half of a side of meat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

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

cut; cut of meat (a piece of meat that has been cut from an animal carcass)

 Context examples 

As it was, it was not the powerful haunch of the black leader which caught our wheel, but the forequarter, which had not weight enough to turn us from our course.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This breed is characterized by white skin and the absence of black hair as well as lop ears and a long middle, light forequarter.

(Landrace Pig, NCI Thesaurus)