Meanings
adjectiveforethrown (not comparable)
- not comparablerarethrown forward
[…] as if in the Parsee Ahab saw his forethrown shadow.
1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 130, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC
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