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What is the noun for forehands?

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forehand
  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.
  4. The chief or most important part.
  5. Superiority; advantage; start; precedence.
  6. (surfing) The hand towards the front of the board.
  7. Synonyms:
  8. Examples:
    1. “In table tennis, his forehand was so precise and powerful that it left his opponents stunned.”
forehander
  1. (racquet sports) A shot played forehand.
  2. (surfing) A surfer who approaches a swell facing the wave ("on their forehand") rather than with the wave behind them ("on their backhand").
  3. (sailing) The crew member in charge of managing the foresail.
forehandedness
  1. Prudence, foresight, and thriftiness.
  2. Action taken in advance.
  3. Wealth, the quality of having sufficient possessions to live comfortably.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “With traditional Down East forehandedness the Bango city fathers insured themselves at Lloyd's of London, before the alert, wgainst anybody's getting hurt in the practice exodus.”
      “Any God's quantity of fuss and flubdub to bury a man, and not an ounce of forehandedness in the whole outfit to find out whether he was rightly dead.”
      “We can, if we choose to utilise our experience, be forehanded about these matters. But we shall only be forehanded by creating institutions to compel forehandedness.”
forehanders
  1. plural of forehander
forehands
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