foreland Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea)
    headland; head; promontory.
  2. noun land forming the forward margin of something

WordNet

Fore"land` noun
Definitions
  1. A promontory or cape; a headland; as, the North and South Foreland in Kent, England.
  2. (Fort.) A piece of ground between the wall of a place and the moat. Farrow.
  3. (Hydraul. Engin.) That portion of the natural shore on the outside of the embankment which receives the stock of waves and deadens their force. Knight.

Webster 1913