fore- prefix Comb ~-cuddy, ~-lock v (see 1985), ~-peak.
    1988 GOSSE 18 Being fitted out with a larger fore-cuddy and gang-boards, [the longer skiffs] were more seaworthy and not restricted to fishing grounds close to the foreshore. 1985 Terminology of Loggers 7: [Fore-lock--of a horse, to hook his hind shoe into the shoe of a front hoof.] [1930] 1985 ASHTON 99 [One bunkhouse] they call 'forepeak.' Now, in the forepeak, the skipper would stay and what they called the 'second-hand.'

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