Meaning of fore-handed | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Looking to the future; displaying foresight; prudent.
   US
2. Wealthy.
   US, obsolete
3. Executed with a forehand stroke.
   not-comparable
4. Paid or executed in advance.
   obsolete
5. Pertaining to the forequarters of a horse.
   obsolete

Examples

“His unconscious requirement waas that this also must be reasonable; if it were not, he would accept the portions that were reasonable and reject the others as now too childish for his fore-handed American brain.”

“The “fore-handed mechanic,” who has the decision to resist the purchase of any coveted article until he has the money to pay for it, finds no trouble, when business reverses come upon a community, in deciding to take in sail while the storm is yet in the distance.”

““Fore-handed !' Miss Nanny, fore-handed!” said Madam Gamby, plying her shears, which snapped off the cloth very much as their owner did her words. "I never was one of your after-dinner folks. This kind of work has got to be all done up before plantin' time."”

“"You mean to say that because I work hard and get a little fore-handed I ought to take a lot of shiftless folks and teach them to be lazy and dependent on me?"”

“The young man approaching us, with long temple-locks, cane and other appurtenances of dandyism, is the son of a plain, honest citizen who, as our country friends say, is fore-handed, or well to do in the world”

“Till, long proceeding on the saving plan, He found himself a warm, fore-handed man”

“A training device for tactually indicating to a player whether the player's hand has properly gripped the handle of a racket for forehanded play and for backhanded play”

“Barry's fore-handed strokes were very effective, while Moon's back-handers were at times brilliant.”

“However, both fore-handed and back-handed cutting motions were effective for reaping dry wheat, as the stalks partly broke and partly were cut by the blades.”

“Concurrence in the conclusion that if the law of hypothec be repealed the landlords will resort to fore-handed rents, as a necessary security”

“People are being sued for rent, and, while legally they may be in arrear, in actual fact they are not in arrear, because they are being sued for fore-handed rent, sometimes as much as a quarter in advance.”

“The fore-handed dinner is a convenient method of cooking a dinner before it is needed, so that less time must be spent in the kitchen at the dinner hour.”

“To this tribe we may refer a little fore-handed animal, of the island of Ceylon, which M. Buffon calls the Lori ; very remarkable for the singularity of its figure.”

“No matter how lacking he may be in other portions of his contour, this fore-handed formation and action are absolute prerequisites.”

“For instance, many fast horses are heavier fore-handed than balanced action requires.”

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