forehanded

‘I dun'no' whether it air night or no,’ she said …. ‘I mought be too forehanded a-gittin' supper fur aught I kin tell.’

The conditions of the old-time Salisbury hill-farm, which fed its owners on its spare-ribs and corn meal, and sweetened their taste with the crystallized sap of its maples, and which reckoned a man with a savings-bank account and a hundred stonewalled and unmortgaged acres "forehanded" if not positively rich, have ceased to be typical conditions of the American present-day prosperity.

She caught a last glimpse of the pattern of the carpet when the forehanded chop with the edge of the palm came down on the back of the neck.

Known as a 'forehanded' (straightforward) man, Cushing became a landowner and an investor in local industries.

...whilst the price of restoration was always forehanded, the brotherhood had never been known to break their guarantee of honour.

Jaq. ...Then, to say the truth, Mary's very well forehanded too. Sanc. Forehanded --- oons this Oaf makes a Mare of my Daughter.