Meaning of foreway | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A highroad.
   Northern-England, dialectal
2. An advantage; foredeal.
   UK, dialectal
3. The part of a cart or vehicle intended to ensure that the end-thrust is taken against the shoulder collar rather than the linch-pin.

Examples

“I got a whisper⟳ of this; so by my song, I was determined to cut⟳ them all out in that, as well as I did in getting herself; but you know⟳, I couldn't be angry, even if they had got the foreway of me in it, bekase it's an ould custom.”

“Provided that old Gilligan had not more horse sense⟳ than yourself and got the foreway of you," says I, [...]”

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