Crossword clues for foreland
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Foreland \Fore"land`\, n.
A promontory or cape; a headland; as, the North and South Foreland in Kent, England.
(Fort.) A piece of ground between the wall of a place and the moat.
--Farrow.(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.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A headland. 2 (context geology English) In plate tectonics, the zone adjacent to a mountain chain where material eroded from it is deposited.
WordNet
n. a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea) [syn: promontory, headland]
land forming the forward margin of something
Wikipedia
Foreland is the easternmost point of the Isle of Wight. It is located three miles (five kilometres) east of the town of Brading, and due south of the city of Portsmouth on the British mainland. It is characterised by a pub called the Crab and Lobster Inn and various beach huts plus a beach cafe and a coast guard lookout. In the sea are the reefs of Bembridge Ledge which is rich in edible crabs, lobsters and spider crabs and shoals of mackerel. In the Crab & Lobster Inn are photographs of the many shipwrecks, which included the submarine HMS Alliance, now a museum ship at Gosport and the First World War troopship the S.S. Mehndi carrying troops from South Africa, with great loss of life.
The channel through the interior of the Bembridge Ledges is known as "Dickie Dawes Gut" after a notorious local smuggler (and father of the courtesan Sophie Dawes) due to his feat of escaping the excise men by superior local navigational knowledge. There was a pill-box built in the Second World War, now subsumed in the sea defences. The beach is sandy with stones which contain Cretaceous fossils. The cliffs also feature Horsetails ferns.
Category:Headlands of the Isle of Wight
Usage examples of "foreland".
Whitsuntide bells were ringing through the land, the work had begun: unceasingly the dumpcarts were driven from the foreland to the dike line, there to dump the clay, and in the same way an equal number was driven back to get new clay from the foreland.
Where the eastern-most alpine foreland of the first range met the flysch foothills at the northwestern end of the second, the river broke through a rocky barrier and turned abruptly south.
North Foreland the whole length and breadth of the Downs glittered with the riding-lights of ships lying there with two or three cables ahead, windbound still, with many new arrivals.
The grasslands lay in a deep violet haze and to the west thin flights of waterfowl were moving north before the sunset in the deep red galleries under the cloudbanks like schoolfish in a burning sea and on the foreland plain they saw vaqueros driving cattle before them through a gauze of golden dust.
The southern and northern k fthe valley maintained their characteristic differences, but the base rock was cracked and down-faulted to great depths the river and the limestone foreland of the high southern moi, Toward the west was the steep limestone edge of a fault line course of the river turned northwest.
The Forelands, the Hills of Recall, the South Stage, the gorges and valleys, the savannas, the streams and forests were faithfully depicted.
Blue, red and purple lights indicated the location of nodes, sparse along the Forelands, more plentiful in the Hills of Recall and on the South Stage.
He remembered the furtive passage across the Forelands, the Dirdir-trap in Boundary Forest, the race back to the Portal of Gleams.
Down the river within the hour, around the Forelands and up the river.
He kept all the isles of Anglesey on the left side, and fared over the fords by the forelands, over at the Holy Head, till he again took land in the wilderness of Wirrel.
They dwelt, many of them, in uninhabited isles or desert forelands, totally cut off from shops.
The far-off land may have bays, forelands, angles in and out to any number and extent.
Passing through the Portal of Gleams, they set out across the Foreland toward the Hills of Recall, black on the mottled dark brown and violet sky, ten miles to the south.
Here in the Moots des Lyonnais and the Forez we have a foreland of the utmost antiquity cheek-by-jowl with recent volcanic intrusions.
The capstan turned, the fiddle squeaked, the temporary ladies hurried ashore, and the Nore light faded astern: the frigate stood for the North Foreland with a favourable tide and a quartering wind.