Meanings
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1
noun
a lock of hair that grows or falls over a person's forehead
A loose forelock fell across his eyes.
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2
noun
the part of a horse's mane that falls forward between its ears
The rider gently brushed the horse's forelock.
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Etymology
From Old English forelocc, a compound of fore, 'front,' and lock, 'tress of hair.' The idiom take time by the forelock imagines seizing an opportunity as it approaches, before it passes beyond one's grasp.