forethrown

English

Etymology

fore- +‎ thrown

Adjective

forethrown (not comparable)

1. (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.