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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Foreland \Fore"land`\, n. 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: foreland n 1: land forming the forward margin of something 2: a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that just out into the sea) [syn: {promontory}, {headland}]
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