cross-handed
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.32 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Done with hands or forearms crossed over each other.
adj
Done by crossing the hand to the other side of the body.
adj
Involving two opposing directions.
adv
With hands or forearms crossed over each other.
adv
While crossing the hand to the other side of the body.
adv
In two opposing directions.
adv
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).
Example Sentences
- "The cross-handed grip helps in maintaining the wrist position."
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
- "Joe got them to rig him a holster so he could draw the .45 cross-handed."