Toward the front or forward direction, ahead of something else.
From 'afore' (before, in front of) + 'ward' (direction). An obsolete or dialectal variant attempting to describe forward movement, combining directional prefixes.
This word is so rare and archaic that it barely appears in historical records, which suggests that English speakers found 'forward' sufficient and saw no need to add an extra prefix to an already directional word.
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