Meanings
verbforelift (third-person singular simple present forelifts, present participle forelifting, simple past and past participle forelifted)
present singular third person forelifts · participle present forelifting · participle past forelifted · past forelifted
- obsoleteTo lift up in front.
So dreadfully he towards him did pas, / Forelifting up aloft his speckled brest […]
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
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