forethrown

adj

forethrown

adj

Etymology From fore- + thrown.

1

Rare thrown forward

  • […] as if in the Parsee Ahab saw his forethrown shadow.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 130, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

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