forecatch

From fore- +‎ catch.

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

1. (transitive, rare) To catch beforehand or in advance.
   • 1863, John Bonner, ‎George William Curtis, ‎Henry Mills Alden, Harper's Weekly, volume 7, page 394:

     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.

   • 1925, Mabel Hardy Pollitt, A Biography of James Kennedy Patterson, page 96:

     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.'

   • 1929, The Christian Advocate, volume 104, page 13:

     In so far as they forecaught the gleam from the morning star they are guides for us.