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Forebay vs Forelay - What's the difference?

forebay | forelay |

As a noun forebay

is an artificial pool of water ahead of a larger body of water.

As a verb forelay is

to lay down beforehand or forelay can be (forelie).

forebay

English

(wikipedia forebay)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An artificial pool of water ahead of a larger body of water.
  • The distinctive overhang(s) on a Pennsylvania barn.

    • forelay

    English

    Etymology 1

    Verb

  • To lay down beforehand
    • These grounds being forelaid and understood. — Mede.
    I shall, before I instance, only forelay this That we must consider ...'' — ''The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI. , 1822
  • To waylay
    • Again Lavis heard him: "You thought to forelay me, eh -- and breed panic above?”'' — James B. Connally, ''Sonnie-Boy's People , 1913
  • To plan, contrive in advance
    • You folks had better forelay to come aboard by then.'' — Charles Neville Buck, ''The Tyranny of Weakness , 1917

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (head)
  • (forelie)
    • References
    (Webster 1913)