Obs. [f. FORE- pref. + FIGHT sb.] a. The foremost defence or bulwark (see FIGHT sb. 5 b). b. The front rank (of an army).
c. 1611. Chapman, Iliad, XII. 274.
| The Greeks yet stood, and still repair’d the fore-fights of their wall | |
| With hides of oxen, and from thence they pour’d down stones in show’rs | |
| Upon the underminers’ heads. | |
| Ibid., XV. 276. | |
| And these were they that bravely furnish’d then | |
| The fierce forefight. |
