Synonyms for foreland:
noun promontory into water
noun high land area
noun point
noun point
noun sharp end, top, end of extension
noun headland
Examples of uses:
Impelled by this most welcome breeze, we were soon round the South foreland and off Dover, where we hove-to to land the pilot.
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Title: The Cruise of the "Esmeralda", author: Harry Collingwood, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25817/25817-h/25817-h.htm
And the youngest, he never was found; and the others was stone dead ashore, nigh on to the foreland.
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Title: Somehow Good, author: William de Morgan, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/28345/28345-h/28345-h.htm
Its sea-front walk of a couple of miles or more is as fine as any that can be found from the foreland to the Lizard.
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Title: The Automobilist Abroad, author: M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/26030/26030-h/26030-h.htm
The North foreland had been made advisedly snug for the night.
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Title: Denis Dent, author: Ernest W. Hornung, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/37598/37598-h/37598-h.htm
The North foreland was blessed with a commander who was at his best in an emergency.
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Title: Denis Dent, author: Ernest W. Hornung, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/37598/37598-h/37598-h.htm
The most successful experiments have been carried on in the South foreland lighthouse, by an arrangement of powerful magnets.
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Title: A Yacht Voyage Round England, author: W.H.G. Kingston, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25032/25032-h/25032-h.htm
Countisbury is a little village on the west side of the foreland, close to the Somerset border.
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Title: Devonshire, author: Francis A. Knight, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/44738/44738-h/44738-h.htm
On rounding the towering and magnificent South foreland one gets ones first glimpse of Dover when coming from the eastward.
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Title: From the North Foreland to Penzance, author: Clive Holland, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/48039/48039-h/48039-h.htm
Away we went down the river, and soon rounded the North foreland, and stood out in the Channel.
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Title: Varney the Vampire, author: Thomas Preskett Prest, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14833/14833-h/14833-h.htm
They raced abreast of the lights of Margate, started rounding the North foreland, pounded by bigger seas.
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Title: The Door into Infinity, author: Edmond Hamilton, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32847/32847-h/32847-h.htm
