| 单词 | cross-buttock |
| 释义 | ˈcross-ˈbuttock, n.
[app. f. cross prep. + buttock; in form an adj. used absolutely.]
A peculiar throw over the hip made use of in wrestling and formerly in pugilism: see quot. 1808.
[1690D'Urfey Collin's Walk ii. 74 (Farmer) When th' hardy Major..To make quick end of fight prepares, By Strength ore buttock cross to hawl him, And with a trip i' th' Inturn maul him.] 1714[see buttock n. 6]. 1749Fielding Tom Jones xiii. v, All the various stops, blows, cross-buttocks, &c. incident to combatants. 1808Sporting Mag. XXX. 247 A cross-buttock in pugilism is, when the party, advancing his right leg and thigh, closes with his antagonist, and catching him with his right arm, or giving a round blow, throws him over his right hip, upon his head. 1886Times 24 Apr. 5/5 Clark won easily,..throwing his man with a cross-buttock.
Hence ˈcross-ˈbuttock v. trans., to throw with a cross-buttock (also fig.); ˈcross-ˈbuttocker, one who cross-buttocks; a cross-buttock.
1826Disraeli Viv. Grey vi. i, An unexpected cross-buttocker floored the incautious and unscientific Grafenberg. 1878Browning Poets Croisic 107 Hardly that humbug Could thus cross-buttock thee. 1889W. Armstrong Wrestling (Badm. Libr.) 199 Should the stroke fail there is no help for the unfortunate cross-buttocker. Ibid. A much tighter hold is required for the purpose of cross-buttocking your man. |
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