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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