Forth

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

English

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

• Firth of Forth
• swim the Forth

Proper noun

Forth

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

Etymology 2

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

• froth

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