Foreland

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Foreland \Fore"land`\, n.
     1. A promontory or cape; a headland; as, the North and South
        Foreland in Kent, England.
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     2. (Fort.) A piece of ground between the wall of a place and


        the moat. --Farrow.
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     3. (Hydraul. Engin.) That portion of the natural shore on the
        outside of the embankment which receives the stock of
        waves and deadens their force. --Knight.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  foreland
       n 1: a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out
            into the sea) [syn: {promontory}, {headland}]
       2: land forming the forward margin of something