[f. FORE- pref. + SHOT.]
1. A projecting part of a building.
1839. Black, Hist. Brechin, viii. 189. By these improvements the Timber Market, formerly so obstructed with foreshots, covered with thatch, that the fraternity of free masons were prohibited from walking in it by torchlight, became a regular, if not an elegant street.
2. In distilling: The spirits which first come over.
1893. Brit. Med. Jrnl., 1 April, 708/1. We understand that ‘faints’ is the last fraction in the distillation of whisky, and would therefore contain the alcohol which had not passed over in the ‘fore-shots’ and the ‘clean spirits.’
