forestretch

That which stretches out, forth, or forward.

Noun

  1. That which stretches out, forth, or forward.
    • 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...
    • 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,...
    • 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...

Origin

From fore- + stretch. Cognate with German vorstrecken.

Verb

  1. To stretch out, forth, or forward.
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • That's enough," said Heer-bai blocking the father's path with her forestretched arms. - 2003, Zaverchand Kalidas Meghani, The Shade Crimson:

Forms

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