Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Foreland \Fore"land`\, n.
   1. A promontory or cape; a headland; as, the North and South
      Foreland in Kent, England.

   2. (Fort.) A piece of ground between the wall of a place and
      the moat. --Farrow.

   3. (Hydraul. Engin.) That portion of the natural shore on the
      outside of the embankment which receives the stock of
      waves and deadens their force. --Knight.

Source : WordNet®

foreland
     n 1: a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out
          into the sea) [syn: {promontory}, {headland}]
     2: land forming the forward margin of something