foreland : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: foreland	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for foreland
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
foreland n a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea) Synonym(s): promontory, headland, head, foreland land forming the forward margin of something
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Foreland \Fore"land`\, n. 1. A promontory or cape; a headland; as, the North and South Foreland in Kent, England. 2. (Fort.) A piece of ground between the wall of a place and the moat. --Farrow. 3. (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.