forefoot

Meanings

Noun

• Either of the front feet of a quadruped.
• The front part of a person's foot.
• A piece of timber terminating the keel at the fore end, connecting it with the lower end of the stem.

Verb

• To repair the front area of (a shoe etc).
• To catch (a horse) by binding its front legs together with rope.

Origin

• From Middle English forefot, forfote, equivalent to fore- + foot.