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Forehand
//fɔːɹhænd// adj, name, noun, verb
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Beforehand; paid in advance. not-comparable
"a forehand rent"
Adjective
- 1 (of racket strokes) made with palm facing direction of stroke wordnet
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname.
Noun
- 1 A stroke in which the palm of the hand faces the direction of the stroke.
- 2 (sports) a return made with the palm of the hand facing the direction of the stroke (as in tennis or badminton or squash) wordnet
- 3 A throw similar to a sidearm throw in baseball, where the disc remains on the throwing-arm side of the body and is led by the middle finger.
- 4 All of the part of a horse which is before the rider.
"[…]those horses which are of a chicke Forehand, short necked"
- 5 The chief or most important part. archaic
"The great Achilles, whom opinion crowns / The sinew and the forehand of our host"
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- 6 Superiority; advantage; start; precedence.
"And, but for ceremony such a wretch, Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep, Had the forehand and vantage of a king"
- 7 The hand towards the front of the board.
Verb
- 1 To strike with a forehand stroke. transitive
Etymology
Etymology 1
From fore- + hand.
Etymology 2
From fore- + hand.
Etymology 3
From fore- + hand.
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