forehand
adjEtymology From fore- + hand.
1
Beforehand; paid in advance.
- a forehand rent
- Antonyms
- afterhand
forehand
nounUK /fɔːhænd/ · US /fɔːɹhænd/
Etymology From fore- + hand.
1
A stroke in which the palm of the hand faces the direction of the stroke.
- the devastating speed of her forehand return
2
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.
3
All of the part of a horse which is before the rider.
- […]those horses which are of a chicke Forehand, short necked1618, Michel Baret, An Hipponomie […] :
4
Archaic The chief or most important part.
- The great Achilles, whom opinion crowns / The sinew and the forehand of our host1602, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, act 1, scene 3:
5
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 king1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
- Derived terms
- forehander