foreshoot noun 2verb 1forms 3 noun2 •An overhang created by an upper level cantilevered over the lower level of a barn; forebay.The sketch inclosed is for a barn 42 x 34 feet with 8 feet foreshoot and the same back shed. — 1890 •The leading shoot.Man is no longer an insignificant accident in an immense and indifferent universe, but the very center and foreshoot of the vast evolutionary process. — 1987 verb1 •To go too far forward; overshoot.Instantly he gave the rein to his horse, and with panting speed foreshot his little army : in a moment after his beloved Fanny sprang into his arms. — 1825 formsforeshot · foreshooting · foreshoots
