這個拼法是2個不同的字· 2 words spelled “forelock”
- 1forelock · hair over the forehead額前垂髮One way to hold this word: hair at the very front of a head, hanging down over the forehead.
- 2
forelock · hair over the forehead
nOne way to hold this word: hair at the very front of a head, hanging down over the forehead. Not the whole head of hair — just the piece above the eyes, the piece that falls forward and has to be pushed back. Because it sits at the front, it is the part of the hair that faces whoever you are standing in front of, and the part you can reach with your own hand without thinking. Everything this word does on a person, on a horse, and in the old expression grows from that one small patch of hair at the front.
From the word’s history
The source gives Old English forelocc, that is fore- (front) plus lock (a piece of hair), which points straight at the picture: the lock of hair at the front.
來源資料寫的是古英語 forelocc，由 fore-（前面）加 lock（一綹頭髮）組成。這正好就是畫面本身：前面的那一綹。
Wiktionary, "forelock" (etymology 1)
forelock · wedge that locks a bolt
nA different word that happens to be spelled the same. One way to hold it: a bolt has been pushed through two pieces of metal, and a small flat wedge is knocked through a hole at its far end. Nothing is being squeezed tight. The wedge simply stands in the way, so the bolt cannot slide back out. It is a door-bar for a bolt, sitting across the front end of it.
From the word’s history
The source lists this under a separate etymology, from Middle English forelok, fore- plus lock. One way to read it is that lock here is the fastening kind rather than a piece of hair, and fore- is where it sits: across the front end of the bolt.
來源資料把它放在另一個獨立的詞源底下，來自中古英語 forelok，由 fore- 加 lock 組成。一種讀法是：這裡的 lock 指「扣住」，不是一綹頭髮；fore- 指的是位置——扣在螺栓的前端。
Wiktionary, "forelock" (etymology 2)
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