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noun

Forehand n.

All that part of a horse which is before the rider.

The chief or most important part.

Superiority; advantage; start; precedence. "And, but for ceremony, such a wretch... Had the forehand and vantage of a king."

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Etymology of 'Forehand'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Forehand" Quotes from Famous Books

... a fantasy? She has contrived to give them all beauty or dignity or melancholy grace. A Bactrian camel lying under a palm. A dromedary flashing up the sands,—spray of the dry ocean sailed by the "ship of the desert." A herd of buffaloes, uncouth, shaggy-maned, heavy in the forehand, light in the hind-quarter. [The buffalo is the lion of the ruminants.] And there is a Norman horse, with his huge, rough collar, echoing, as it were, the natural form of the other beast. And here are twisted serpents; ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 4, No. 24, Oct. 1859 • Various

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