foresnatching

Verb

foresnatch (third-person singular simple present foresnatches, present participle foresnatching, simple past and past participle foresnatched)

1. (UK, dialectal, rare, transitive) To snatch in advance.
   • Friends of the people! — glorious name, indeed, If these bestow, not you foresnatch, the meed — Your motive, not your means, the Muse admires, Whom kindred aims — congenial zeal inspires; [...]1803, Josiah Walker, The defence of order, a poem