Obs. [f. FORE- pref. + CHASE sb.1]
1. A chase, hunt, or rush forwards.
c. 1611. Chapman, Iliad, XVII. 636.
Not a man sustaind | |
The forechace, nor the after-fight. |
2. The bow chase-guns of a ship.
1726. Shelvocke, Voy. round World (1757), 202. Threatning us very hard, and plying us with his forechase.
1745. P. Thomas, Jrnl. Ansons Voy., 281. We hoisted our Colours, and began the Engagement with our Fore-chace.