forespread

present singular third person forespreads · participle present forespreading

1. ambitransitiverareTo spread before; spread in front of; spread in advance of.

   Perchance their course might be in well measured bounds forespread for good.

   1910, John. H. Brownell, Arthur Maurice Smith, Joseph E. Morcombe, The American Tyler-keystone

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   This is Bridgewallace Avenue and I don't see any time for such waddle, forespreading backspraddlers, human agent culls. The one responsible for all this is making late. He's already here but we don't see him. He's under the water stool.

   2000, Clark Coolidge, Alien Tatters

1. no pluralrareThat which is spread or laid out before.

   There is the problem with the blandishments of a succulent forespread: Will we stay on for fish, meat, or fowl, or shall we make a do-it-yourself meal from tidbits, and let the gustatory harbingers take the hindmost?

   1968, John Baillie, Lucius Hatfield Bugbee, Charles Kendall Gilbert, Religion in Life