forefoot

plural forefeet

1. Either of the front feet of a quadruped.
2. The front part of a person's foot.

   I was not even sure I could change it at all, but I was convinced that I had to change my foot plant and land higher on my forefoot, rather than my heel.

   2014, Allan Lawrence, Olympus and Beyond, page 100

3. businessA piece of timber terminating the keel at the fore end, connecting it with the lower end of the stem.

   I could see the waves boiling white under her forefoot.

   1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC

present singular third person forefoots · participle present forefooting · participle past forefooted · past forefooted

1. obsoleterareTo repair the front area of (a shoe etc).
2. transitiveTo catch (a horse) by binding its front legs together with rope.

   He took the first one that broke and rolled his loop and forefooted the colt and it hit the ground with a tremendous thump.

   1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 106

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   By the time she was twelve, she could flank and mug as well as her brothers, she could forefoot anything that moved, but it didn't matter.

   2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 51