Foreway vs Forelay - What's the difference?
foreway | forelay |
(dialectal, Northern England) A highroad.
An advantage; foredeal.
*1852 , William Carleton, Traits and stories of the Irish peasantry :
*1902 , Pearson's magazine: Volume 13:
(of a vehicle) The part of a cart or vehicle intended to ensure that the end-thrust is taken against the shoulder collar rather than the linch-pin. To lay down beforehand
To waylay
To plan, contrive in advance
(forelie)
As a noun foreway
is (dialectal|northern england) a highroad.As a verb forelay is
to lay down beforehand or forelay can be (forelie).foreway
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Noun
(en noun)- I got a whisper of this; so by my song, I was determined to cut them all out in that, as well as I did in getting herself; but you know, I couldn't be angry, even if they had got the foreway of me in it, bekase it's an ould custom.
- Provided that old Gilligan had not more horse sense than yourself and got the foreway of you," says I, [...]
forelay
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Etymology 1
Verb
- 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
- Again Lavis heard him: "You thought to forelay me, eh -- and breed panic above?”'' — James B. Connally, ''Sonnie-Boy's People , 1913
- You folks had better forelay to come aboard by then.'' — Charles Neville Buck, ''The Tyranny of Weakness , 1917