forethrown
English
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[edit]forethrown (not comparable)
- (rare) thrown forward
- 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:
- […] as if in the Parsee Ahab saw his forethrown shadow.