forestretch

present singular third person forestretches · participle present forestretching · participle past forestretched · past forestretched

1. raretransitiveTo stretch out, forth, or forward.

   That's enough," said Heer-bai blocking the father's path with her forestretched arms.

   2003, Zaverchand Kalidas Meghani, The Shade Crimson

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   Bend in the forest then the plastic elm, By pressure moulded to the plough-beam's curve: To this be fitted at its nether point An eight foot pole, forestretching; back to back

   1825, Publius Vergilius Maro, A translation of the first book of the Georgics of Virgil

   In short, in their persuasive efforts to please, to give everybody "a sweet taste of liberty," the Commission had pleased no one. Thus was the Commission, caught in vast inscrutables, uneasily observing a hydra-headed giant, forestretched, abysmally yawning, in disturbed slumber.

   1961, Peter Decker, Benedict Arnold: Son of the Havens - Page 145

1. no pluralrareThat which stretches out, forth, or forward.

   Into it, he slowed and stiffened still more, as though he waded through a holding action, biding till the curve and then the forestretch where he could be faster.

   1969, Quarterly Review of Literature, volumes 16-17, page 423

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   Now, we had not been looking about us above five minutes when, happening to glance aft past the helmsman, I saw the ocean not above half a mile distant white as milk: the forestretch of it was about two miles long; how wide it went back I could not say, [...]

   1895, William Clark Russell, A Three-stranded Yarn: The Wreck of the Lady Emma - Page 170

   A seascape, its forestretch is an ocean inlet bounded at a short distance by a low rocky promontary coming from the right edge and submerging near the left; beyond, the sea reaches away to the horizon where a large mountainous island lies [...]

   1996, John O'Grady, Sarah Purser, The Life and Work of Sarah Purser - Page 264