Forth

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

• Firth of Forth

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

Forth

1. An imperative, stack-based high-level programming language, used mostly in control applications.

   Postscript is a language in the Forth family of languages.

• froth

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:

     Go gaame abuth Forth, thou unket saalvache.

     Go, make game about Forth, thou uncouth sloven.

• Jacob Poole (1867), 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, page 100