单词 | cross-counter |
释义 | ˈcross-ˌcounter Boxing. [f. cross- 5 + counter n.5 3.] (See counter n.5 3.) Hence as v. trans. and intr. Also fig.
1864‘Mark Twain’ Sketches of Sixties (1927) 149 The skirmishers fight shyly up to each other, counter and cross-counter, feint and parry. 1889E. B. Michell Boxing 166 The answer to this cross-counter is to deliver the right at the face of the counterer. 1897Encycl. Sport (1901) I. 134/2 That most effective of manœuvres, though difficult of execution, the right hand cross-counter. Ibid. 137/1 Should he show a tendency to counter at the body or cross-counter at the head, you may find an opening for an upper-cut. 1907W. De Morgan Alice-for-Short xxvi. 276 As this and much more cross-countered continually with the dialogue about Alice's squashy days, Mrs. Heath had good excuse for misunderstanding. |

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