forerank
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
forerank (plural foreranks)
- The first rank; the front row.
- 1925, Harold Titus, Age:
- He was in the forerank of a crowd that gathered when Burke, a surfman, plunged from the east pier and dragged out a drowning boy
- 2018, Stephen R. Lawhead, In the Region of the Summer Stars:
- the forerank launched their spears, which Conor easily avoided.
References[edit]
- “forerank”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.