forewalk

forewalk

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English forwalken.

Verb

forewalk (third-person singular simple present forewalks, present participle forewalking, simple past and past participle forewalked)

1. Alternative form of forwalk
   • 1815, Thomas Nash, Christ's tears over Jerusalem:

     […] they wear away with continuance, even as time doth wear and forewalk us; […]

Etymology 2

From fore- +‎ walk.

Noun

forewalk (plural not attested)

1. A gangway.
   • 1877, George Barnard, Drawing from nature:

     A gate opens into the Forewalk overhung by the arching branches of more fine beeches, among the roots of which spring numerous clumps of glistening holly.

   • 1955, The British journal of administrative law: Volume 2:

     One of the objections raised was that the gangway or forewalk which was the major part of the scheme was used as a promenade by the public- with a resultant loss of privacy to some of the frontages.

Verb

forewalk (third-person singular simple present forewalks, present participle forewalking, simple past and past participle forewalked)

1. (very rare, transitive and intransitive) To walk before or ahead of.
   • 1894, Leonard C. Smithers, The book of the thousand nights and a night: Volume 7:

     Now when the Merman had shown him the people of the city, he carried him forth therefrom and forewalked him to another city, which he found full of folk, both males and females, formed like the women aforesaid and having tails; [...]

Anagrams

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