Obs. [f. FORE- pref. + CHASE sb.1]

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  1.  A chase, hunt, or rush forwards.

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c. 1611.  Chapman, Iliad, XVII. 636.

                                Not a man sustain’d
The forechace, nor the after-fight.

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  2.  The bow chase-guns of a ship.

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1726.  Shelvocke, Voy. round World (1757), 202. Threatning us very hard, and plying us with his forechase.

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1745.  P. Thomas, Jrnl. Anson’s Voy., 281. We hoisted our Colours, and began the Engagement with our Fore-chace.

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