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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
foreland
    n 1: a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out
         into the sea) [syn: promontory, headland, head,
         foreland]
    2: land forming the forward margin of something
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Foreland \Fore"land`\, n.
   1. A promontory or cape; a headland; as, the North and South
      Foreland in Kent, England.
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   2. (Fort.) A piece of ground between the wall of a place and
      the moat. --Farrow.
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   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.
      [1913 Webster]
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