英和和英

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /fɔːhænd/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /fɔːɹhænd/

名詞

forehand (複数形 forehands)

1. (racket sports) A stroke in which the palm of the hand faces the direction of the stroke.
2. (disc sports) A throw similar to a sidearm throw in baseball, where the disc remains on the throwing-arm side of the body and is led by the middle finger.
3. All of the part of a horse which is before the rider.
   • 1618, Michel Baret, An Hipponomie […] :

     […] those horses which are of a chicke Forehand, short necked

4. (archaic) The chief or most important part.
   • 1602, Shakespeare, William, Troilus and Cressida, Act 1, Scene 3:

     The great Achilles, whom opinion crowns / The sinew and the forehand of our host

5. Superiority; advantage; start; precedence.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene i]:

     And, but for ceremony such a wretch,
     Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep,
     Had the forehand and vantage of a king

6. (surfing) The hand towards the front of the board.

同意語

• (kind of throw in sports): flick

反意語

• backhand