English

forepeak

From fore- + peak.

A compound of fore- + peak

Proto-Indo-European *per- ‘before, formerly’

Proto-Germanic *fura- ‘before, in front of, for’

Proto-West Germanic *forē- ‘before, in front of, fore-, pre-’

English fore-

Old English Pēac- ‘peak (in place names)’

Middle English pek ‘peak’

English peak

Today it means

noun The part of the hold of a ship within the angle of the bow.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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