fore

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• adjective Located at or toward the front; forward.
• adjective Earlier in order of occurrence; former.
• noun Something that is located at or toward the front.
• noun The front part.
• adverb At, toward, or near the front; forward.
• adverb At an earlier time.
• preposition Before.
• interjection Used by a golfer to warn those ahead that a ball is headed in their direction.
• idiom (to the fore) In, into, or toward a position of prominence.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun An obsolete preterit and past participle of fare.
• Before (in place); in presence of.
• Before (in place); in the part that precedes or goes first; specifically, nautical, toward or in the parts of a ship that lie near the bows; forward: opposed to aft.
• Before (in time); previously.
• Before.
• noun Way; course; manner of proceeding.
• Situated at the fore or front; front; forward; anterior; prior; former; being, coming, or going before or in front in place, or earlier in time: as, the fore legs of a horse; the fore wheels of a wagon; the fore part of the day.
• noun The front: in the phrases at and to the fore (see below).
• noun Nautical, the foremast.
• noun At or in the front.
• noun An erroneous form of for- in some words, as in forego, forespend, forespeak, etc., for forgo, forspend, forspeak, etc., being obsolete in all but forego.
• noun An erroneous form of for-, as in foreclose.
• In golf, a warning cry (‘look out, before!’) uttered to attract the attention of a person who is liable to be struck by the ball.
• noun A prefix, equivalent to before (in place or time): before nouns often written separately and regarded as an adjective (see fore, adjective).

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun obsolete Journey; way; method of proceeding.
• adverb In the part that precedes or goes first; -- opposed to aft, after, back, behind, etc.
• adverb Obs. or Colloq. Formerly; previously; afore.
• adverb (Naut.) In or towards the bows of a ship.
• adverb (Naut.) from stem to stern; lengthwise of the vessel; -- in distinction from athwart.
• adverb (Naut.) not rigged with square sails attached to yards, but with sails bent to gaffs or set on stays in the midship line of the vessel. See Schooner, Sloop, Cutter.
• preposition obsolete Before; -- sometimes written 'fore as if a contraction of afore or before.
• adjective Advanced, as compared with something else; toward the front; being or coming first, in time, place, order, or importance; preceding; anterior; antecedent; earlier; forward; -- opposed to back or behind
• adjective a reservoir or canal between a mill race and a water wheel; the discharging end of a pond or mill race.
• adjective (Shipbuilding) the part of a ship forward of the largest cross-section, distinguished from middle body and after body.
• adjective a receptacle in the front of a vehicle, for stowing baggage, etc.
• adjective the pommel of a saddle.
• adjective a cabin in the fore part of a ship, usually with inferior accommodations.
• adjective A small carriage at the front end of a plow beam.
• adjective (Naut.) the lowermost sail on the foremost of a square-rigged vessel; the foresail. See Illust. under Sail.
• adjective Same as Front door.
• adjective the front edge of a book or folded sheet, etc.
• adjective [Prov. Eng.] an ancestor.
• adjective In firearms, the wooden stock under the barrel, forward of the trigger guard, or breech frame.
• adjective a girth for the fore part (of a horse, etc.); a martingale.
• adjective a sledge hammer, working alternately, or in time, with the hand hammer.
• adjective one of the front legs of a quadruped, or multiped, or of a chair, settee, etc.
• adjective (Naut.) the angle within a ship's bows; the portion of the hold which is farthest forward.
• adjective a front piece, as the flap in the fore part of a sidesaddle, to guard the rider's dress.
• adjective a carpenter's plane, in size and use between a jack plane and a smoothing plane.
• adjective [Obs.] previous perusal.
• adjective in Scotland, rent payable before a crop is gathered.