Sekirov Dictionary

fore-handed

/fɔːˈhandɪd/

adjective 5
adverb 1
forms 2

adjective5

(US) Looking to the future; displaying foresight; prudent.
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Executed with a forehand stroke.
- A training device for tactually indicating to a player whether the player's hand has properly gripped the handle of a racket for forehanded play and for backhanded play — 1987
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(US, no longer used) Wealthy.
- "You mean to say that because I work hard and get a little fore-handed I ought to take a lot of shiftless folks and teach them to be lazy and dependent on me?" — 2012
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(no longer used) Paid or executed in advance.
- Concurrence in the conclusion that if the law of hypothec be repealed the landlords will resort to fore-handed rents, as a necessary security — 1869
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(no longer used) Pertaining to the forequarters of a horse.
- To this tribe we may refer a little fore-handed animal, of the island of Ceylon, which M. Buffon calls the Lori ; very remarkable for the singularity of its figure. — 1816

adverb1

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With a forehand stroke.
- This blow should be given fore-handed, as soon as the colt has quitted the wall. — 1806

forms

more fore-handed · most fore-handed

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