A-fōre'1, adv.
[Prefix a and fore; A-S. ätforan.] Before. [Obs.] “Look out afore.” Falconer.
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Afore
A-fōre'2, prep.
Sense 1. Before.
Sense 2. (Naut.) Toward the head of; farther forward than; or nearer the stem than; as, afore the windlass.
Afore the mast, a phrase applied to a common sailor who holds no office on board the ship. Totten.