cross-buttock

British  

noun

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

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cross-buttock

And never mind what I said yesterday about closing with him, we must risk his cross-buttock, and your superior strength may serve you.”

From Dr. Jolliffe's Boys by Frank Feller

Yes, but avoid wrestling with him; he is good at the cross-buttock, I hear.

From Dr. Jolliffe's Boys by Frank Feller

I mind me when there was scarce a man in Cummerlan' could give me the cross-buttock.

From A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time by Sir Hall Caine

Joe Hines, ex-lumber-jack, came down with an impact equal to a fall from a two-story building—his overthrow accomplished by a cross-buttock, delivered, he claimed, before he was ready.

From Burning Daylight by Jack London

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

From Frank Merriwell's Chums by Burt L. Standish