"forechase" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From fore- + chase.",
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          "ref": "1848, John Galt, All the Voyages Round the World",
          "text": "After this, he was in a great hurry to get his spritsail-yard fore and aft, threatening very hard, and plying them with his forechase; but they were soon out of his reach; this ship was called the Peregrine, of fifty-six guns, with upward of 450 men.",
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        "The front of a hunt; a first assault"
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  "word": "forechase"
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