cross press

British  

noun

1. a fall in wrestling using the weight of the body to pin an opponent's shoulders to the floor

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Example Sentences

She teaches at Warwick University and produces scholarly studies on obscure women poets, whose work she publishes with her own Stump Cross Press.

From Time Magazine Archive

Despite glowing reports from the Red Cross press office, however, the problems cited by the FDA persisted.

From Time Magazine Archive

All believers—whether in the churches, on the highways, or in their homes—bow down and kiss the cross thrice, or, if there be no cross, press their lips three times to the ground or the pavement, and utter those three wishes which if expressed precisely at this traditional moment will surely, it is held, be fulfilled.

From Project Gutenberg