"foresnatch" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From fore- + snatch.",
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          "ref": "1803, Josiah Walker, The defence of order, a poem",
          "text": "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; [...]",
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          "ref": "1825, Mac-Erin O'Tara (pseud.), Thomas Fitz-Gerald: the Lord of Offaley",
          "text": "[...] at once reach the objects of her infant admiration and draw them nearer to her eagerness, then ran with pouting lips to foresnatch her father's kisses.",
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          "ref": "1847, Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine",
          "text": "Hoar Pindus, from his rocky barriers, Looks on thy ranks of gay-plumed warriors, And sees an ominous sight : The leafy tent for victory graced, Foresnatching fate with impious haste From gods that rule the fight.",
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        "To snatch in advance."
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        "(transitive, very rare, UK, dialectal) To snatch in advance."
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  "word": "foresnatch"
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          "ref": "1803, Josiah Walker, The defence of order, a poem",
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