Foreland
[fɒ:lәnd]
Definition
(n.) A promontory or cape; a headland; as, the North and South Foreland in Kent, England.
(n.) A piece of ground between the wall of a place and the moat.
(n.) That portion of the natural shore on the outside of the embankment which receives the stock of waves and deadens their force.
Typed by Elvin
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Promontory, cape, headland, point of land.
Checker: Wilmer
Definition
n. a point of land running forward into the sea a headland.
Edited by Barrett
Examples
- First use of Electric Light in Light House at South Foreland. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- On the evening of December 8, 1858, the first practical electric light, the work of Faraday and Holmes, flashed over the troubled sea from the South Foreland Lighthouse. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
Edited by Lester