backfall

American  

[bak-fawl] / ˈbækˌfɔl /

noun

1. Wrestling. a fall or throw onto the back.

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Etymology

Origin of backfall

First recorded in 1670–80; back ² + fall

Example Sentences

If Luke Tweezy had not quickwittedly smacked the animal between the ears with the butt of his quirt it would have continued the motion to a backfall and rolled its rider out.

From The Heart of the Range by White, William Patterson

Paul accepted, and in another month was back in London, resolute to try a new backfall with the world.

From Despair's Last Journey by Murray, David Christie

This rocks a backfall, or pivoted lever, to which is attached the pulldown, a wire penetrating the bottom of the wind-chest to the pallet.

From How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Williams, Archibald