TO LIE WITH A SHIP'S FORE-FOOT IN A CHASE, is to fail and meet with her by the nearest distance; and so to cross her in her way, or to come across her fore-foot.
A ship is said to have a good chase, when she is so built foreward on, or a-stern, that she can carry many guns to shoot forewards or backwards; according to which she is said to have a good foreward, or good stern, chase.