forecatch
verbEtymology From fore- + catch.
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Rare To catch beforehand or in advance.
- On the night before I covered the coals, in the cracked, rheumatic stove, locked the door, put the key on entry shelf and stood for a moment on the door-step to stealthily forecatch the spirit of freedom that blew at me from out the south.1863, John Bonner, George William Curtis, Henry Mills Alden, Harper's Weekly, volume 7, page 394:
- The child comprehended in his childish way at once, and forecaught the explanation with the interruption: 'Yes, Father, and when they become clogged and jostle each other, the friction causes heat.'1925, Mabel Hardy Pollitt, A Biography of James Kennedy Patterson, page 96:
1 more example
- In so far as they forecaught the gleam from the morning star they are guides for us.1929, The Christian Advocate, volume 104, page 13: