"headmost" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From head + -most.",
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          "ref": "1836, Richard Henry Dana, Two Years Before the Mast:",
          "text": "The headmost was a ship, and the other, a brig.",
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          "ref": "1859, Sir Walter Scott, “Rob Roy”, in Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton, Eds., editor, The World's Greatest Books, Vol VIII:",
          "text": "The headmost hounds soon burst out of the coppice, followed by three or four riders with reckless haste, regardless of the broken and difficult nature of the ground. \"",
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          "ref": "1914, Ernest Scott, The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders:",
          "text": "We were now the headmost line of battle ship and gaining fast upon the enemy; but the main part of our fleet seemed rather to drop from them.",
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        "Closest to the front of a group or pack"
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          "roman": "čelen",
          "sense": "Closest to the front of a group or pack",
          "word": "челен"
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  "word": "headmost"
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        },
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          "ref": "1914, Ernest Scott, The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders:",
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        }
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        "Closest to the front of a group or pack"
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