forecatch

Verb

forecatch (third-person singular simple present forecatches, present participle forecatching, simple past and past participle forecaught)

1. (rare, transitive) To catch beforehand or in advance.
   • On the night before I covered the coals, in the cracked, rheumatic stove, locked the door, put the key on entry shelf and stood for a moment on the door-step to stealthily forecatch the spirit of freedom that blew at me from out the south.1863, John Bonner, George William Curtis, Henry Mills Alden, Harper's Weekly, volume 7, page 394
   • The child comprehended in his childish way at once, and forecaught the explanation with the interruption: 'Yes, Father, and when they become clogged and jostle each other, the friction causes heat.'1925, Mabel Hardy Pollitt, A Biography of James Kennedy Patterson, page 96