cross-handed
adjective
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adj
Etymology: From cross + handed.
- Done with hands or forearms crossed over each other.
“The cross-handed grip helps in maintaining the wrist position.”
- Done by crossing the hand to the other side of the body.
“I wonder how it would be to stand right in the beginning of the fast water, at the lip of the pool, and try a cross-handed cast.”
- Involving two opposing directions.
“Appreciable scattering of cross-handed radiation occurred in the middle of the band, leaving regions near the long- and short-wavelength band edges in which scattering of cross-handed radiation was negligible.”
- Back-handed.
“We believe and are thoroughly convinced that God's blessings come to his church in a cross-handed way, entirely different, in many instances, from the way we expect them.”
adv
Etymology: From cross + handed.
- With hands or forearms crossed over each other.
“Both Arnold Palmer and Gary Player have been quoted as saying that if they could change one thing about their games, they would have putted cross-handed early in their career.”
- While crossing the hand to the other side of the body.
“Joe got them to rig him a holster so he could draw the .45 cross-handed.”
- In two opposing directions.
“The merchant fishermen at the falls acted as middlemen or factors, and passed the objects of traffic, as it were, cross-handed; trading away part of the wares received from the mountain tribes to those of the rivers and plains, and vice versa: […]”
“Or he can walk cross-handed following the principle of the cross-legged walk. In this variation, he can move forward, backward, or sideways.”
- Facing forward and pushing the oars away from the body on the power stroke (rather than facing backward and pulling the oars on the power stroke).
“Just then, a sailor, who had crossed the channel, and was making rapid headway, by rowing cross-handed, emerged from behind a merchant vessel which was moored at the wharf.”
- Idly.
“Why do we sit cross-handed and do nothing which would serve as a basis upon which to build the salvation of our people?”
- Back-handedly.
“..the end has been answered, though the channel of conveyance has been in direct opposition to what I wanted or expected, like as Jacob in blessing Joseph's sons, he wittingly—ah it is wittingly indeed, we are blessed; namely, cross-handed.”