Obs. [f. FORE- pref. + WORK sb.] A ‘work’ or defensive structure in the front of a building or fortified place.
1497. in Ld. Treas. Accts. Scotl. (1877), I. 334. Payment of the bigging of the fore werk of Dunbar.
1502. Acc., in Lib. Cart. S. Crucis (1840), Preface, p. lvi. To Walter Merlioun, mason, in part payment of his task of the foirwerk and the new hall in Halyrudhous.
