discobolus
Britishnoun
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(in classical Greece) a discus thrower
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a statue of a discus thrower
Etymology
Origin of discobolus
C18: from Latin, from Greek diskobolos, from diskos discus + -bolos, from ballein to throw
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At the Olympic games two summers ago, another Greek sculptor fashioned a discobolus, along more authentic lines, with models who knew all the facts and intricacies of discus-throwing.
From Time Magazine Archive
Jay Silvester turned discobolus as an eighth-grader: handed the discus of an older friend, he skimmed it 30 ft. into a pasture on his father's Tremonton, Utah. farm.
From Time Magazine Archive
The golfer in the suggestion of grace and power, as in the models that have been cut of Harry Vardon at the top and end of his driving swing, reaches some way towards the discobolus.
From The Happy Golfer Being Some Experiences, Reflections, and a Few Deductions of a Wandering Golfer by Henry Leach
I infer from the attitude of Myron’s discobolus, as seen in our copies, that it was thrown without a preliminary run, and rather hurled standing.
From Rambles and Studies in Greece by J. P. Mahaffy
But for our golfing suggestion some of the discobolus models serve us better.
From The Happy Golfer Being Some Experiences, Reflections, and a Few Deductions of a Wandering Golfer by Henry Leach
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