Meaning of foreshoot | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The leading shoot.
2. An overhang created by an upper level cantilevered over the lower level of a barn; forebay.

Examples

“When we consider the era in which Plato lived, before the Revelation of Christ had shed the sunbeams of its life and light upon the world, seeing only a foreshoot of the glorious day about to open, and conjecturing obscurely as to the true relationship and destiny of men, we are astonished at the beauty and justice of his sentiments, and his deep devotion to the laws of Eternal Order and Duty.”

“Yet they offer no certain guarantees, since just one more all-out war could possibly so weaken the complex and sensitive foreshoot of evolution which is human society that the process might not be able to recover and go on to realize its unimaginable potentialities.”

“Man is no longer an insignificant accident in an immense and indifferent universe, but the very center and foreshoot of the vast evolutionary process.”

“The sketch inclosed is for a barn 42 x 34 feet with 8 feet foreshoot and the same back shed.”

“When they drove along under the "foreshoot" the horse lurched sideways and the front wheel caught behind a fence post.”

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