Obs. exc. dial. Also 6 forebough, 7 -boothe. [f. FORE- pref. + BOUGH sb. (sense 1), BOW sb.3] a. In pl. The shoulders of a quadruped, as seen from the front; the breast. b. The beak or prow of a ship.
1569. Stocker, trans. Diod. Sic., III. viii. 115. It is difficile and hard to laye abord about the beake or forebough of a Gallie.
1610. Markham, Masterp., I. lii. 110. The cure is first to bathe all his breast and foreboothes with the oyle of Peter. Ibid. (1614), Cheap Husb. (1623), 86. His [a bull’s] dew-lap extending from his neather lip downe to his fore-boothes.
1714. Lond. Gaz., No. 5253/4. Strayed … a Black Mare … a small White Spot between her Forebows.
1828. Craven Dial., Forbows, the breast of an animal.
