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Foresay vs Foreway - What's the difference?

foresay | foreway |

As a verb foresay

is to say beforehand; predict; foretell.

As a noun foreway is

(dialectal|northern england) a highroad.

foresay

English

Verb

  • To say beforehand; predict; foretell.
  • To decree; ordain; appoint.
    • Let ordinance Come as the gods foresay it — Shakespeare.

    foreway

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dialectal, Northern England) A highroad.
  • An advantage; foredeal.
  • *1852 , William Carleton, Traits and stories of the Irish peasantry :
    • 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.
  • *1902 , Pearson's magazine: Volume 13:
    • Provided that old Gilligan had not more horse sense than yourself and got the foreway of you," says I, [...]
  • (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.