round-arm

British  

adjective

1. cricket denoting or using bowling with the arm held more or less horizontal

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Example Sentences

Canada’s star was David Winckworth, who made 12 with the bat before sending down a few round-arm thunderbolts of his own, taking four wickets as the Americans were dismissed for 64.

From BBC • May 29, 2024

He said imagine the feel of it coming out of your hand almost like an off-spinner, your arm coming over almost like a round-arm, or low-arm.

From BBC • Jun. 17, 2013

It's beastly difficult to guard a round-arm swing.

From The White Feather by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

Then he lurched in over the threshold, and coolly dodged a thick paw, with tearing white claws, that whipped at him with a round-arm stroke out of the pitch-darkness.

From The Way of the Wild by Rountree, Harry

Willes was not the inventor of that kind, or round-arm bowling.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" by Various