Definition of Foreland. Meaning of Foreland. Synonyms of Foreland

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Definition of Foreland

Foreland
Foreland Fore"land`, n. 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.

Meaning of Foreland from wikipedia

- Look up foreland in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Foreland may refer to: a landform projecting into the sea, such as a headland or a promontory an...
- A foreland basin is a structural basin that develops adjacent and parallel to a mountain belt. Foreland basins form because the immense m**** created by...
- North Foreland (TR 39860 69616 51°22′30″N 1°26′42″E / 51.37490°N 1.44510°E / 51.37490; 1.44510) and South Foreland (TR 35909 43307 51°08′25″N 1°22′16″E...
- naval battles of the Anglo-Dutch Wars are called the Battle of the North Foreland after the cape on the Kent coast of England: The Battle of the Gabbard...
- Foreland Shipping Limited is a company formed for the express purpose of building and owning the Point class sealift ships. The six original ships were...
- The Alpine Foreland, less commonly called the Bavarian Foreland, Bavarian Plateau or Bavarian Alpine Foreland (German: Bayerisches Alpenvorland), refers...
- North Foreland is a chalk headland on the Kent coast of southeast England, specifically in Broadstairs. With the rest of Broadstairs and part of Ramsgate...
- service in the history of staffed lighthouses, commencing in 1730 at South Foreland, Kent, with William Knott and ending in 1906 at Skerries (Anglesey, Wales)...
- layers of the sub-Hercynian depression in the rolling hills of the Harz Foreland; south of the Harz, Permian sediments lie flat on southwest-dipping Palaeozoic...
- edge of the glacier and the moraines of latest maximum is called glacier foreland or glacier forefield. In the Alps this maximum was in 1850 and since then...