forestroke

A forward stroke or movement.

Noun

  1. A forward stroke or movement.
    • The endopods of the second maxilla and of the trunk limbs flick medially at the termination of the forestroke and the posterior setae of the endopod are pointed medially. - 1963, Howard L. Sanders, The Cephalocarida:
    • Forward motion can also be produced by the figure-8 stroke, by increasing the angle of attack on the backstroke and decreasing it on the forestroke, and by moving the whole limb from 'forward and down' to 'back and up'...
    • Around 1500, beyaerders also applied their chiming technique on the smaller bells of the forestroke. - 2014, Luc Rombouts, Singing Bronze: A History of Carillon Music:
  2. An ornament in which one or more notes are added before the principal note, such as an appoggiatura or acciaccatura
    • Yes, and we call it a waving forestroke. It sometimes waves upward, sometimes downward. - 1882, Harmony Simplified: Text-book of the Harmony Circle
    • The particular kind of forestroke was also indicated by double letters. - 1901, The Musical Herald and Tonic Sol-fa Reporter:

Origin

From fore- + stroke.

Forms

forestrokes

Antonyms

afterstroke