Forth

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See also: forth, forþ, forð, forth-, forð-, and forþ-

English

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Etymology 1

Proper noun

the Forth

  1. A river in Scotland that flows for about 47 km (29 miles) from The Trossachs through Stirling to the Firth of Forth on the North Sea.
  2. A sea area that covers the Firth of Forth
Derived terms

Proper noun

Forth

  1. A village in South Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS9453).

Etymology 2

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From fourth, for "fourth-generation programming language"; the u was dropped because the IBM 1130 operating system limited filenames to five characters.

Proper noun

Forth

  1. An imperative, stack-based high-level concatenative programming language, used mostly in control applications.
    PostScript is another concatenative language similar to the Forth family of languages.

Anagrams

Yola

Proper noun

Forth

  1. Alternative form of Forthe
    • 1867, “VERSES IN ANSWER TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 100:
      Go gaame abuth Forth, thou unket saalvache.
      Go, make game about Forth, thou uncouth sloven.
    • 1867, “VERSES IN ANSWER TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3, page 100:
      Heal, griue, an kin, apaa thee, graacuse Forth,
      Health, wealth, and regard upon thee, gracious Forth,

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 100
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