Fore-handed
adj, adv ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Looking to the future; displaying foresight; prudent. US
"His unconscious requirement waas that this also must be reasonable; if it were not, he would accept the portions that were reasonable and reject the others as now too childish for his fore-handed American brain."
- 2 Wealthy. US, obsolete
""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?""
- 3 Executed with a forehand stroke. not-comparable
"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"
- 4 Paid or executed in advance. obsolete
"Concurrence in the conclusion that if the law of hypothec be repealed the landlords will resort to fore-handed rents, as a necessary security"
- 5 Pertaining to the forequarters of a horse. obsolete
"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."
- 1 With a forehand stroke.
"This blow should be given fore-handed, as soon as the colt has quitted the wall."
Example
More examples"His unconscious requirement waas that this also must be reasonable; if it were not, he would accept the portions that were reasonable and reject the others as now too childish for his fore-handed American brain."
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