Bible Dictionaries
Foreland

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) A piece of ground between the wall of a place and the moat.

(2):

(n.) That portion of the natural shore on the outside of the embankment which receives the stock of waves and deadens their force.

(3):

(n.) A promontory or cape; a headland; as, the North and South Foreland in Kent, England.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Foreland'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​f/foreland.html. 1828.