foretrack

present singular third person foretracks · participle present foretracking · participle past foretracked · past foretracked

1. transitiveTo track beforehand or in advance.

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   If, thereby, in the proximate future even two or three of the great Atlantic storms that ravage the sail-whitened offings of the British coasts can, every year, be foretracked and their destination be telegraphically and officially announced to the threatened European districts, the life-saving and property-saving thus effected would amply compensate for all the labor and expense of the international system, to which such timely storm-warnings would owe their success.

   1880, The Kansas City Review of Science and Industry, volume 3, page 727

2. transitiveTo track in a forward direction.

   Marten trails were foretracked and backtracked as far as possible.

   2010 (Digitized), Wildlife Division Report - Issue 3268, page 43

plural foretracks

1. A track made beforehand or in advance.
2. A track made by the forelegs of an animal.

   This directional predominance of the forelegs over the hindlegs indicates that placing the forelegs under stimulus control is a major component in training straightness (where the hindhooves step into the foretracks).

   2011, Paul McGreevy, Andrew McLean, Equitation Science, page 138