forefoot
IPA: fˈɔrfʊt
noun
- Either of the front feet of a quadruped.
- The front part of a person's foot.
- (shipbuilding) A piece of timber terminating the keel at the fore end, connecting it with the lower end of the stem.
verb
- (rare, obsolete) To repair the front area of (a shoe etc).
- (transitive) To catch (a horse) by binding its front legs together with rope.
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Examples of "forefoot" in Sentences
- Each forefoot has five toes.
- Each forefoot has five webbed claws.
- It has a full keel with a cutaway forefoot.
- Foot cavus increases when the forefoot is pronated.
- The foot diagrams are all front views of the left forefoot.
- The forefoot represents the most distal portion of the foot.
- The forefoot being the junction between the keel and the stem.
- Thus, the higher the heel, the thicker the sole at the forefoot portion.
- This ankylosaurid had five toes on the forefoot and four on the hind foot.
- The forefoot formed a ram forged from brass, a feature in vogue at the time.