headmost
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]headmost (not comparable)
- Closest to the front of a group or pack
- 1836, Richard Henry Dana, Two Years Before the Mast[1]:
- The headmost was a ship, and the other, a brig.
- 1859, Sir Walter Scott, “Rob Roy”, in Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton, Eds., editor, The World's Greatest Books, Vol VIII[2]:
- The headmost hounds soon burst out of the coppice, followed by three or four riders with reckless haste, regardless of the broken and difficult nature of the ground. "
- 1914, Ernest Scott, The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders[3]:
- We were now the headmost line of battle ship and gaining fast upon the enemy; but the main part of our fleet seemed rather to drop from them.