forelift

English

Etymology

From fore- +‎ lift.

Verb

forelift (third-person singular simple present forelifts, present participle forelifting, simple past and past participle forelifted)

1. (obsolete) To lift up in front.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     So dreadfully he towards him did pas, / Forelifting up aloft his speckled brest […]