cross-buttock

noun

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

Example Sentences

Robert Rowantree, a big six foot, fifteen-stone man, who practised a slaughtering cross-buttock, used to say that no man could so effectually stop it as Jemmy Fawcett.

From Project Gutenberg

The outcome was a serious call for new codes of conduct, and by 1865 the "Dozen Rules", drawn up by the London Amateur Athletic Club, was accepted by parliament – in essence those we know today: three-minute rounds with a minute's interval; gloves worn and ringside stanchions padded; 10-second counts at any knockdown, and "no cross-buttock throwing whatever".

From The Guardian

Goaded by despair and fright from the unexpectedness of the attack and what might be in store for him the white man struggled desperately and, with the return of a measure of calmness, worked a neat cross-buttock on his red adversary and threw him sprawling out in plain sight of the boat.

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

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