Forwalk vs Forewalk - What's the difference?
forwalk | forewalk |
To walk (someone) excessively; weary with walking.
*1815 , Thomas Nash, Christ's tears over Jerusalem :
* 1815 , Thomas Nash, Christ's tears over Jerusalem :
A gangway.
* 1877 , George Barnard, Drawing from nature :
* 1955 , The British journal of administrative law: Volume 2:
(transitive, and, intransitive) To walk before or ahead of.
* 1894 , Leonard C. Smithers, The book of the thousand nights and a night: Volume 7 :
As verbs the difference between forwalk and forewalk
is that forwalk is to walk (someone) excessively; weary with walking while forewalk is or forewalk can be (transitive|and|intransitive) to walk before or ahead of.As a noun forewalk is
a gangway.forwalk
English
Alternative forms
* (l)Verb
(en verb)- [...] they wear away with continuance, even as time doth wear and forewalk us; [...]
forewalk
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) forwalken.Verb
(en verb)- [...] they wear away with continuance, even as time doth wear and forewalk us; [...]
Etymology 2
From .Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- 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)- 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; [...]