Crossword clues for forefoot
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Forefoot \Fore"foot`\, n.
One of the anterior feet of a quadruped or multiped; -- usually written fore foot.
(Shipbuilding) A piece of timber which terminates the keel at the fore end, connecting it with the lower end of the stem.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Either of the front feet of a quadruped. 2 (context shipbuilding English) A piece of timber terminating the keel at the fore end, connecting it with the lower end of the stem. vb. (context transitive English) To catch (a horse) by binding its front legs together with rope.
WordNet
n. a front foot of a quadruped
[also: forefeet (pl)]
Wikipedia
The forefoot is the anterior aspect of the foot, composed of the five metatarsal bones, the fourteen phalanges and associated soft tissue structures. It is a common site of pathology in podiatry, and is the anatomic region involved in such conditions as hallux valgus, hallux rigidus, and Morton's neuroma, among others. In cases of severe deformity, such as in Charcot joints seen with diabetic neuropathy, the forefoot can be reconstructed by arthroplasty.
Usage examples of "forefoot".
Without hesitation Drumfire gathered his forefeet under his chest and leapt over the leading edge of white water as though he were jumping a fence.
The ripple under her forefoot sounded like the contented chuckle of a country millstream at a sleepy knot or two.
He reared and struck out with his forefeet, bringing two of the dwarves down.
He braced his forefeet against rock, bunched his muscles, and shot his head upwards.
Then, angrily, his forefeet grabbed hers, his neck hunched, and he flopped her down.
And then his forefeet, so much like slender, fingered hands, came into view.
He found her two fingers, and, pressing her thighs alternately with his forefeet, he suckled, making low rumbling sounds deep in his throat.
Some of its breed, Tirtha had heard, were battle-trained, specially shod on forefeet to cut down a dismounted enemy.
Instead, the dog took a step or two closer to him, and put its forequarters down on the ground and laid its head on its forefeet and looked up at him with strangely appealing eyes, which rolled upward.
All hands watched her coming on--the brightly coppered forefoot parting the water like a golden knife, the headsails flapping lazily and emptily at each downward surge, and the towering canvas tiers dipping and curtsying with each stately swing of the sea.
A great quantity of shipping was in view, barques for the most part, Cape Horners, great, deep sea tramps, whose iron-shod forefeet had parted every ocean the world round from Rangoon to Rio Janeiro, and from Melbourne to Christiania.
Then Cim reared, threatening Kincar with his clawed forefeet as he had been taught to savage a spearman in a fight.
Then the lizard convulses, thrashing, and a webbed forefoot claws at the sabre that protrudes from the platter-sized eye.
When I saw Verity's turquoise hide gleaming in the dappling summer shade, Nighteyes sat down and curled his tail tidily around his forefeet.
He looked first of all due north, straight out over the huge and smoothly sculpted and whitely phosphorescent bow-wave thrown up by the knife-edged forefoot of his racing destroyer: four miles away, no more, framed in its backdrop of indigo sky and diamantine stars, lay the brooding mass of a darkly cliff-girt island: the island of Kheros, for months the remote and beleaguered outpost of two thousand British troops who had expected to die that night, and who would now not die.