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† ˈforsar(y Obs.
[ad. Fr. † forsaire, -çaire, now superseded by forçat.]
A galley-slave.
1546St. Papers Hen. VIII, XI. 284 As toching the forsares, He could not of his honour rendre them, having before gyven them libertye. a1572Knox Hist. Ref. i. (1586) 182 The Masse was said in the Gallies..in Presence of the Forsaris. 1721Strype Eccl. Mem. II. i. xviii. 149 A proclamation..that..every such author..be committed into the galleys, there to row in chains, as a slave or forsary. |