Meanings of foreland in inglês

Once clear of St Helens, I've laid a course to weather the foreland.

The foreland was clearly visible, with the high woods which clothed its summit.

We found the coast very precipitous, without any foreland or inlets.

The high hills to the west were the farthest eastern foreland of the enormous western chain.

A noble beach of white sand fringes the bay from the town to the foreland of Alminàr.

And many a fairy foreland set

We passed within a very short distance of the Cape, a bold bluff foreland, but not of any considerable height.

The diversity of polyhydroxyalkanoates-producing bacteria in freshwater reservoirs in the Ecology Glacier foreland, Antarctica, was examined by a cultivation-dependent method.

Beach, sand, headland, foreland, shelf, reef, breaker, bar, bank, ledge, shoal, spit, sound, race, reach, are words of Northern origin.

The Alcazaba or citadel, its oldest part, is built on the isolated and precipitous foreland which terminates the plateau on the north-west.

To the south was the foreland of the high western mountains, whose uppermost reaches were never warmed by the gentle days of summer.

The sun, though up and brisk already upon sea and foreland, had not found time to rout the shadows skulking in the dingles.

During an earlier advancing period, the mountain glaciers filled the deep trench of a fault line separating the mountain foreland and the ancient massif.

It came around the foreland head of the ridge with the lights off and started down the edge of the floodplain in the moonlight.

They reached a part of the cliffs where a low wall divided the foreland from an old churchyard which was fast crumbling into the sea.

And so they three departed thence and rode forth as fast as ever they might till that they came to the foreland of that mount.