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forequarter

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fore·quar·ter  (fôrkwôrtr, fr-)
n.
1. The front section of a side of meat.
2. The foreleg, shoulder, and adjacent lateral parts of an animal, especially a horse.
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Noun1.forequarter - the front half of a side of meat
cut of meat, cut - a piece of meat that has been cut from an animal carcass
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So through various yawning holes there slipped to the floor below--to one room hams, to another forequarters, to another sides of pork.
The Jungle by Sinclair, Upton View in context
Her eye was arrested by crossed scabbards of fretted wood upon the dull green wall, and whereever there was a high flat eminence, some fern waved from a pot of crinkled china, or a bronze horse reared so high that the stump of a tree had to sustain his forequarters.
Night and Day by Woolf, Virginia View in context
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