forend
noun
forend is a noun meaning “Part of a rifle, underneath the barrel, where it is supported by the hand” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-R-E-N-D, and it appears about once in every 30 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of forend is forends.
What does forend mean?
noun
- 1
Part of a rifle, underneath the barrel, where it is supported by the hand.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of forend
- forends plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is forend?
Forend appears about once in every 30 million words in written English, the 167,786th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does forend come from?
From fore- + end.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).