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#1·Apr 27, 2026
(obsolete, US) Wealthy.
The “fore-handed mechanic,” who has the decision to resist the purchase of any coveted article until he has the money to pay for it, finds no trouble, when business reverses come upon a community, in deciding to take in sail while the st…
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#2·Apr 27, 2026
(not comparable) Executed with a forehand stroke.
“Fore-handed !' Miss Nanny, fore-handed!” said Madam Gamby, plying her shears, which snapped off the cloth very much as their owner did her words. "I never was one of your after-dinner folks. This kind of work has got to be all done up b…
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#3·Apr 27, 2026
(US) Looking to the future; displaying foresight; prudent.
His unconscious requirement waas that this also must be reasonable; if it were not, he would accept the portions that were reasonable and reject the others as now too childish for his fore-handed American brain.
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