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Forspread vs Forespread - What's the difference?

forspread | forespread |

As verbs the difference between forspread and forespread

is that forspread is to spread; extend while forespread is to spread before; spread in front of; spead in advance of.

As a noun forespread is

that which is spread or laid out before.

forspread

English

Alternative forms

* (l)

Verb

  • To spread; extend.
  • *1898 , Omar Khayyam, John Payne, Villon Society, The quatrains of Omar Kheyyam of Nishapour :
    • Or ever with me the maw of the sepulchre fed becometh, Or e'er in the dust each part of my frame forspread becometh, [...]

    forespread

    English

    Verb

  • (lb) To spread before; spread in front of; spead in advance of.
  • *1910 , John. H. Brownell, Arthur Maurice Smith, Joseph E. Morcombe, The American Tyler-keystone :
    • Perchance their course might be in well measured bounds forespread for good.
  • *2000 , Clark Coolidge, Alien Tatters :
    • 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.

    Derived terms

    *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • That which is spread or laid out before.
  • *1968 , John Baillie, Lucius Hatfield Bugbee, Charles Kendall Gilbert, Religion in Life :
    • 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?