What is "fore"

Fore \Fore\ (f[=o]r), n. [AS. f[=o]r, fr. faran to go. See Fare, v. i.] Journey; way; method of proceeding. [Obs.] ``Follow him and his fore.''
--Chaucer.

Fore \Fore\, adv. [AS. fore, adv. & prep., another form of for. See For, and cf. Former, Foremost.]

1. In the part that precedes or goes first; -- opposed to aft, after, back, behind, etc.

2. Formerly; previously; afore. [Obs. or Colloq.]

   The eyes, fore duteous, now converted are.
   --Shak.

3. (Naut.) In or towards the bows of a ship.

   Fore and aft (Naut.), from stem to stern; lengthwise of the vessel; -- in distinction from athwart.
   --R. H. Dana, Jr.

   Fore-and-aft rigged (Naut.), not rigged with square sails attached to yards, but with sails bent to gaffs or set on stays in the midship line of the vessel. See Schooner, Sloop, Cutter.

Fore \Fore\, n. The front; hence, that which is in front; the future. At the fore (Naut.), at the fore royal masthead; -- said of a flag, so raised as a signal for sailing, etc. To the fore.

1. In advance; to the front; to a prominent position; in plain sight; in readiness for use.

2. In existence; alive; not worn out, lost, or spent, as money, etc. [Irish] ``While I am to the fore.''
   --W. Collins. ``How many captains in the regiment had two thousand pounds to the fore?''
   --Thackeray.

Fore \Fore\, prep. Before; -- sometimes written 'fore as if a contraction of afore or before. [Obs.]

Fore \Fore\ (f[=o]r), a. [See Fore, adv.] Advanced, as compared with something else; toward the front; being or coming first, in time, place, order, or importance; preceding; anterior; antecedent; earlier; forward; -- opposed to back or behind; as, the fore part of a garment; the fore part of the day; the fore and of a wagon. The free will of the subject is preserved, while it is directed by the fore purpose of the state. --Southey. Note: Fore is much used adjectively or in composition. Fore bay, a reservoir or canal between a mill race and a water wheel; the discharging end of a pond or mill race. Fore body (Shipbuilding), the part of a ship forward of the largest cross-section, distinguished from middle body and after body. Fore boot, a receptacle in the front of a vehicle, for stowing baggage, etc. Fore bow, the pommel of a saddle. --Knight. Fore cabin, a cabin in the fore part of a ship, usually with inferior accommodations. Fore carriage.

1. The forward part of the running gear of a four-wheeled vehicle.

2. A small carriage at the front end of a plow beam. Fore course (Naut.), the lowermost sail on the foremost of a square-rigged vessel; the foresail. See Illust. under Sail. Fore door. Same as Front door. Fore edge, the front edge of a book or folded sheet, etc. Fore elder, an ancestor. [Prov. Eng.] Fore end.

   1. The end which precedes; the earlier, or the nearer, part; the beginning.

      I have . . . paid More pious debts to heaven, than in all The fore end of my time.
      --Shak.

   2. In firearms, the wooden stock under the barrel, forward of the trigger guard, or breech frame. Fore girth, a girth for the fore part (of a horse, etc.); a martingale. Fore hammer, a sledge hammer, working alternately, or in time, with the hand hammer. Fore leg, one of the front legs of a quadruped, or multiped, or of a chair, settee, etc. Fore peak (Naut.), the angle within a ship's bows; the portion of the hold which is farthest forward. Fore piece, a front piece, as the flap in the fore part of a sidesaddle, to guard the rider's dress. Fore plane, a carpenter's plane, in size and use between a jack plane and a smoothing plane. --Knight. Fore reading, previous perusal. [Obs.] --Hales. Fore rent, in Scotland, rent payable before a crop is gathered. Fore sheets (Naut.), the forward portion of a rowboat; the space beyond the front thwart. See Stern sheets. Fore shore.

      1. A bank in advance of a sea wall, to break the force of the surf.

      2. The seaward projecting, slightly inclined portion of a breakwater.
         --Knight.

3. The part of the shore between high and low water marks.

   Fore sight, that one of the two sights of a gun which is near the muzzle.

   Fore tackle (Naut.), the tackle on the foremast of a ship.

   Fore topmast. (Naut.) See Fore-topmast, in the Vocabulary.

   Fore wind, a favorable wind. [Obs.]

   Sailed on smooth seas, by fore winds borne.
   --Sandys.

   Fore world, the antediluvian world. [R.]
   --Southey.

mid-15c., "forward;" late 15c., "former, earlier;" early 16c., "situated at the front;" all senses apparently from fore- compounds, which frequently were written as two words in Middle English.

Old English fore (prep.) "before, in front of, in presence of; because of, for the sake of; earlier in time; instead of;" as an adverb, "before, previously, formerly, once," from Proto-Germanic *fura "before" (cognates: Old Saxon fora, Old Frisian fara, Old High German fora, German vor, Danish for, Old Norse fyrr, Gothic faiura "for"), from PIE *prae-, extended form of root *per- (1) "forward, through" (see per).\n

\nNow displaced by before. In nautical use, "toward the bows of the ship." Merged from 13c. with the abbreviated forms of afore and before and thus formerly often written 'fore. As a noun, "the front," from 1630s. The warning cry in golf is first recorded 1878, probably a contraction of before.

Etymology 1

1. 1 (context obsolete English) former; occurring earlier (in some order); previous. (15th-18th c.) 2 forward; situated towards the front (of something). (from 16th c.) adv. 1 In the part that precedes or goes first; opposed to aft, after, back, behind, etc. 2 (context obsolete English) Formerly; previously; afore. 3 (context nautical English) In or towards the bows of a ship. interj. (context golf English) An exclamation yelled to inform players a ball is moving in their direction. n. The front; the forward part of something; the foreground. Etymology 2

   v

2. (en-simple past of: fare)

1. adj. situated at or toward the bow of a vessel [syn: fore(a)] [ant: aft(a)]

2. located anteriorly [syn: fore(a), front(a)]

n. front part of a vessel or aircraft; "he pointed the bow of the boat toward the finish line" [syn: bow, prow, stem]

adv. near or toward the bow of a ship or cockpit of a plane; "the captain went fore (or forward) to check the instruments" [syn: forward] [ant: aft]

Fore was a constituency in County Westmeath represented in the Irish House of Commons from 1612 to 1800.

Fore is a barony in northern County Westmeath, Ireland. It was formed by 1672.

Fore is an EP by Pegboy, released on October 18, 1993 through Quarterstick Records.

"Fore!", originally an Australian interjection, is used to warn anyone standing or moving in the flight of a golf ball. The mention of the term in an 1881 Australian Golf Museum indicates that the term was in use at least as early as that period.

It is believed to come from the military "beware before", which an artilleryman about to fire would yell alerting nearby infantrymen to drop to the ground to avoid the shells overhead. (Before may mean "in front of (the gun being fired)"; fore may mean "(look) ahead".)

Other possible origins include the term being derived from the term "fore-caddy", a caddy waiting down range from the golfer to find where the ball lands. These caddies were often warned about oncoming golf balls by a shout of the term "fore-caddy" which was eventually shortened to just "fore!". The Colonel Bogey March is based on the descending minor third which the original Colonel Bogey whistled instead of yelling Fore around 1914.

Fore may refer to:

• Fore School of Management
• Fore people, a highland people of Papua New Guinea
• Fore (golf), a warning yelled by golfers
• Fore Abbey, an abbey in Ireland
• Fore (Parliament of Ireland constituency)
• Fore River (Maine), a river
• Fore!, the 4th album by Huey Lewis and the News
• Fore (EP), an EP by Pegboy
• The bow of a ship, the front
• FORE Systems, a computer networking company

A place

• Fore, County Westmeath a village beside Fore Abbey
• Fore (barony, County Meath), a barony in County Meath
• Fore (barony, County Westmeath), a barony in County Westmeath