A type of iron or metal tool or fitting that is positioned at the front or forward part of something.
From fore- (front, forward) + iron (the metal). Compound word describing iron components placed at the forward section of ships, tools, or structures.
Nautical craftsmen used this term for reinforcing iron plates at a ship's bow, where the most violent collision with water and ice would occur—it was their armor plating.
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