Obs. [FORE prep. or pref.] A wall of defence; a wall or outwork raised to defend another.

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a. 1000.  Cædmon’s Exod., 297.

        Syndon þa foreweallas fæȝre ȝestepte
wrætlicu wæȝfaru oð wolcna hrof.

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1388.  Wyclif, Isa., xxvi. 1. The sauyour schal be set ther ynne, the wal and the fore wal [Vulg. antemurale].

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1609.  Bible (Douay), Lam. ii. 8. The forewal [Vulg. antemurale] hath mourned, and the wal is destroyed together.

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