forstall

See also: förställ

English

Verb

forstall (third-person singular simple present forstalls, present participle forstalling, simple past and past participle forstalled)

1. Obsolete form of forestall.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     they weened fowle reproch
     Was to them doen , their entraunce to forstall

References

• “forstall”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.