foregangern.
/ˈfɔːɡaŋə/ a. a fore-runner, a harbinger.
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society > communication > information > announcing or proclaiming > [noun] > announcer or proclaimer > harbinger or usher
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a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xix. 219 I go before, bodword to bere, And as forgangere am I send.
b. a predecessor. Obsolete.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > [noun] > one who goes first or predecessor
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1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 4152 I hald þir gret mysdoers Als anticrist lyms and his forgangers.
2. Nautical.
a. ‘A short piece of rope immediately connecting the line with the shank of the harpoon, when spanned for killing’ (Adm. Smyth). Cf. foregoer n., forerunner n.
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1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 64 Yarn for foregangers is made of the best dressed long hemp.
1823 W. Scoresby Jrnl. Voy. Northern Whale-fishery 288 The ‘fore-ganger’, or that part of the line immediately connected with the harpoon.
b. (See quot. 1867.) [So Dutch voorganger.]
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1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Fore-ganger of the Chain Bower Cables, is a length of 15 fathoms of stouter chain, in consequence of greater wear and tear near the anchor.
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