forebody

forebody [fawr-bod-ee, fohr-] ExamplesWord Origin noun, plural fore·bod·ies. Nautical.

1. the part of a ship’s hull forward of the middle body.

Origin of forebody First recorded in 1605–15; fore- + body Examples from the Web for forebody Historical Examples of forebody

She now found that it was scarcely possible to get it on at all, and that one side of the forebody was larger than the other.

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