forespread

English

Etymology

From fore- +‎ spread.

Verb

forespread (third-person singular simple present forespreads, present participle forespreading, simple past and past participle forespread)

1. (very rare, transitive, intransitive) To spread before; spread in front of; spread in advance of.
   • 1910, John. H. Brownell, Arthur Maurice Smith, Joseph E. Morcombe, The American Tyler-keystone:

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

   • 2000, Clark Coolidge, Alien Tatters:

     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.

Derived terms

• forespreading

Noun

forespread (plural not attested)

1. (very rare) That which is spread or laid out before.
   • 1968, John Baillie, Lucius Hatfield Bugbee, Charles Kendall Gilbert, Religion in Life:

     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?