[OE. forscip, f. FOR- pref.2; FORE- pref. + scip, SHIP.] The fore part of a ship or vessel; the prow.

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c. 1000.  Ælfric, Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 166. Prora … forscip.

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13[?].  Coer de L., 2617.

        And Kynge Rychard, that was so good,
With hys axe in foreschyp stood.

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1431–50.  trans. Higden (Rolls), V. 159. The erle sende to do persecucion to Atthanasius, inquirede of hym syttinge in the foreschippe, wheþer he see of Atthanasius.

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1526.  Tindale, Acts xxvii. 30. As though they wolde have cast ancres out off the forshippe.

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1895.  Daily News, 1 Feb., 7/2. The stem … is gone above water to the third frame, but there is no water in the foreship.

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