Thesaurus: foreland

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1. n. A promontory or cape; a headland; as, the North and South Foreland in Kent, England.
2. n. A piece of ground between the wall of a place and the moat.
3. n. That portion of the natural shore on the outside of the embankment which receives the stock of waves and deadens their force.
4. n. a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea)
5. n. land forming the forward margin of something
6. 1. A promontory or cape; a headland; as, the North and South Foreland in Kent, England. 2. (Fort.) A piece of ground between the wall of a place and the moat. Farrow. 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.
7. A piece of ground between the wall of a place and the moat.Farrow.
8. n. land forming the forward margin of something