cross-buttock

noun

1. a wrestling throw in which the hips are used as a fulcrum to throw an opponent

Example Sentences

This was done quickly and scientifically, and it convinced Hodge that Bascomb could not work the cross-buttock on Merriwell.

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Cross-buttock, an unexpected fling down or repulse; from a peculiar throw practised by wrestlers.

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The last time you wrestled a fall with little Tremaine, he threw you easily with a cross-buttock, and he is but a ten-stone man.

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Often and often do his bony fingers almost clutch our throat, or his foot is put out to give us a cross-buttock.

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He'd given the little waistrel the cross-buttock, and felled him on his head.

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