What does "forehand" mean?
Forehand: The chief or most important part. Shak.
Additional senses
- 2.Superiority; advantage; start; precedence. And, but for ceremony, such a wretch . . . Had the forehand and vantage of a king. Shak.
- 3.Done beforehand; anticipative. And so extenuate the forehand sin. Shak.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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