forehand

See also: Forehand

English

Etymology

fore- +‎ hand

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /fɔːhænd/
Audio (RP) (file)
(US) IPA^(key): /fɔːɹhænd/

Noun

forehand (plural forehands)

(racket sports) A stroke in which the palm of the hand faces the direction of the stroke.
(disc sports) A throw similar to a sidearm throw in baseball, where the disc remains on the throwing-arm side of the body and is led by the middle finger.
All of the part of a horse which is before the rider.
- 1618, Michel Baret, An Hipponomie […] :
  […] those horses which are of a chicke Forehand, short necked
(archaic) The chief or most important part.
- 1602, Shakespeare, William, Troilus and Cressida, Act 1, Scene 3:
  The great Achilles, whom opinion crowns / The sinew and the forehand of our host
Superiority; advantage; start; precedence.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene i]:
  And, but for ceremony such a wretch,
  Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep,
  Had the forehand and vantage of a king
(surfing) The hand towards the front of the board.

Synonyms

(kind of throw in sports): flick

Antonyms

backhand

Translations

stroke in racket sports

Bulgarian: форхенд m (forhend)
Catalan: cop de dreta (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 正手 (zhèngshǒu)
Czech: forhend (cs) m
Finnish: kämmenlyönti (fi)
French: coup droit (fr) m
Hungarian: tenyeres (hu)
Polish: forhend (pl) m
Romanian: forehand n
Serbo-Croatian: forhend (sh) m
Swedish: forehand c, forehandslag n

all of the part of a horse which is before the rider

Bulgarian: предница (bg) f (prednica)

Adjective

forehand (not comparable)

Beforehand; paid in advance.
a forehand rent

Antonyms

afterhand

Verb

forehand (third-person singular simple present forehands, present participle forehanding, simple past and past participle forehanded)

(transitive) To strike with a forehand stroke.