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Foreland

n.
  1. A promontory or cape; a headland; as, the North and South Foreland in Kent, England.
  2. (Fort.) A piece of ground between the wall of a place and the moat.
  3. (Hydraul. Engin.) That portion of the natural shore on the outside of the embankment which receives the stock of waves and deadens their force.