fore- prefix Cp OED fore-peak naut 'extreme end of the forehold'; forerunner 3 'prognostic, sign.'
   Comb fore-cuddy: cabin at the bow of a small vessel; esp on an undecked fishing-boat, a small enclosed space forward; CUDDY.
   1842 JUKES ii, 53 I went and lay down in the fore cuddy, a place about the size of a dog-kennel, and stinking of salt butter and fish, and was dreadfully seasick. 1887 Colonist Christmas No 5 I had just settled this in my mind, when who should I see coming up out of the fore-cuddy but Tom Pugsley, in his go-ashore clothes, like myself. [1929] 1933 GREENLEAF (ed) 254 "Lukey's Boat": O, Lukey's boat got a fine fore cutty, / And every seam is chinked with putty. T 45/6-64 'Twas in the fall o' the year, she left to go to St John's in an open boat—she was gangboarded, you know, fore cuddy an' after cuddy on her, an' breeze come on, they got drove off. C 71-127 ~ bow of a small boat where the ropes and anchor were kept. 1974 SQUIRE 20 A crew for such boats would normally be five men. The skipper stood on the forecuddy to guide the boat.
   forelay: see FORELAY.
   fore-peak [phonetics unavailable]: in a lumber camp, the living quarters and store-room of the foreman or 'skipper.'
   [1958] 1965 PEACOCK (ed) iii, 762 "Twin Lakes": I awoke in the morning in very good humour, / Straightway to the forepeak my bucksaw to take. T 96/7-64¹ So the foreman went then into the fore-peak an' got a new suit of clothes and put on un. P 65-64 The living quarters for the skipper and the second hand is called the fore peak. The fore peak is always situated at the extreme end of the cook-house. T 187/90-65 He'd go to the fore peak then; the boss'd have clothes in there to deliver, an' take it from your wages. 1977 Park Interpret Pub No 15 ... a full-scale reconstruction of an old-time logging camp, complete with bunkhouse, cook-house, forepeak, filing-shack and barn... The forepeak contains instruments for scaling or measuring wood. 1979 TIZZARD 362 The foreman, cook and cookies slept in the 'fore peak,' one end of the cook-house. No-one went to the 'fore peak' except on special business. This was the office for the camp and was sort of private.
   forerunner: premonition; cp FETCH.
   T 55/7-64 She come and called me just as plain as if you called me. I knew there was something after happened her. Forerunner of death ... I got forerunner of death myself. C 71-87 On the eve of a death in the family it was said that sounds of boards being sawed could be heard from [the carpenter's] workshop, although he was not then at work. Such happenings were called 'fore-runners.'
   foreshipman: in the 'boat-fishery,' member of the crew stationed forward.
   [1663] 1963 YONGE 57 The boats' masters, generally, are able men, the midshipmen next, and the foreshipmen are generally striplings. They bring the fish at the stage head, the foreshipman goes to boil the kettle, the other two throw up the fish on the stage-head. 1866 WILSON 207 [The planter] requires two men with him. One is called midshipman, because his station is the middle of the boat; the other man is called the fore-shipman, because his station is forward. The fore-shipman is sometimes called captain; but the captain of a fishing-boat is the cook.
   fore standing-room also foreroom, forward stand(ing) room [phonetics unavailable]: in a fishing boat, a compartment between the 'tawts' [seats] of the craft; see also ROOM, STANDING ROOM.
   T 43/8-64 Now, from the bow tawt to the stem is the fore standing room and from that to the after tawt is the midship room. T 172/5-65 I came down, pitched on the cuddy on my crown, on my head, like that, but I fell down in the fore standing room. Q 67-18 Forward standing room: section in small fishing boat for standing. Q 67-86 Foreroom for standing [in a boat]. 1977 BURSEY 126 He was steaming out the narrows in his motor boat with two goats in the fore standing room that were looking ashore and bewildered. 1979 TIZZARD 200 Rowena's grandfather ... fished in the front of the boat from the fore standing room, I fished by the engine room [and] Thomas Watkins fished from 'back aft.'

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