Definitions for forehand

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forehand fore·hand

Spelling: [fawr-hand, fohr-]

IPA: /ˈfɔrˌhænd, ˈfoʊr-/

Forehand is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 329 anagrams from letters in forehand (adefhnor).

Definitions for forehand

noun

1. (in tennis, squash, etc.) a forehand stroke.
2. the part of a horse that is in front of the rider.
3. Cards. the player on the dealer's left, in a game with three players. Compare endhand, middlehand.
4. Archaic. a superior or advantageous position.

adverb

1. (in tennis, squash, etc.) with a forehand stroke.

adjective

1. (in tennis, squash, etc.) of, relating to, or noting a stroke made from the same side of the body as that of the hand holding the racket, paddle, etc. Compare backhand (def 5).
2. being in front or ahead.
3. foremost or leading.
4. done beforehand; given or made in advance, as a payment.

Origin of forehand

First recorded in 1535-45; fore- + hand

Examples for forehand

Of course, not those birds who have had the forehand of a wing amputated.

I had been a forehand then; but to be baffl'd, And have no feeling of the cause—Petro.

He made a desperate effort to get up, but could only raise his forehand.

Mr. Goodfellow tapped his forehand with the end of his two-foot rule.

The forehand and backhand ground strokes should be hit with a short, snap of the wrist—as though you were cracking a whip.

The flexions of the croup are in reality more important than those of the forehand.

A loin of pork with the fat and kidney taken out and boned, and a forehand of pork boned, are very nice dressed in the same way.

It is the one opposite the direction in which you are moving the croup or forehand.

Or, let us take the case of a horse high and strong in the forehand, but low and weak in the hind quarters.

Suppose the horse be low in the forehand and goes too much on the shoulders when in action,—a miserable condition of affairs.