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Forewalk vs Forewall - What's the difference?

forewalk | forewall |

As nouns the difference between forewalk and forewall

is that forewalk is a gangway while forewall is the foremost outer wall of a fortification.

As a verb forewalk

is or forewalk can be (transitive|and|intransitive) to walk before or ahead of.

forewalk

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) forwalken.

Verb

(en verb)
  • * 1815 , Thomas Nash, Christ's tears over Jerusalem :
  • [...] they wear away with continuance, even as time doth wear and forewalk us; [...]

    Etymology 2

    From .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A gangway.
  • * 1877 , George Barnard, Drawing from nature :
  • A gate opens into the Forewalk overhung by the arching branches of more fine beeches, among the roots of which spring numerous clumps of glistening holly.
  • * 1955 , The British journal of administrative law: Volume 2:
  • One of the objections raised was that the gangway or forewalk which was the major part of the scheme was used as a promenade by the public- with a resultant loss of privacy to some of the frontages.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (transitive, and, intransitive) To walk before or ahead of.
  • * 1894 , Leonard C. Smithers, The book of the thousand nights and a night: Volume 7 :
  • Now when the Merman had shown him the people of the city, he carried him forth therefrom and forewalked him to another city, which he found full of folk, both males and females, formed like the women aforesaid and having tails; [...]

    forewall

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The foremost outer wall of a fortification.