forespread

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To spread before

   To spread before; spread in front of; spread in advance of.

   • Perchance their course might be in well measured bounds forespread for good.
   • 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.
2. 2

   That which is spread or laid out before.

   • 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?

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