ADJECTIVE
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with the arm swung round at shoulder height
round-arm bowling
ADVERB
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with an outward or horizontal swing of the arm
he hit the ball round-arm
How To Use round-arm In A Sentence
- You can see the red-checked, round-armed sofa in the foreground, complete with a quilted throw tossed over the back.
- Even while the German wench was recovering her breath afterwards and ringing for refreshments, I was limbering up on the rug, trying out my old round-arm swing; I even got some of her sisters in to throw oranges to me for catching practice, and you never saw anything jollier than those painted dollymops scampering about in their corsets, shying fruit. Flashman's Lady
- Yardy responds by bowling a wild round-arm thing at 65mph. England v Pakistan – as it happened!
- He is credited with introducing round-arm and overarm bowling to Victoria.
- Fleming had struggled to pick Lasith Malinga's round-arm deliveries in the first Test at Napier, released from in front of the umpire, after which he had made the request.
- Then came the Germantown Club, of native American boys, organized in 1855, whose highest ambition, for many years, was to play the Philadelphia Club, "barring Tom Senior," then the only fast round-arm bowler in the country. Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873
- What the hell did you do that for? spluttered Duff and swung a round-arm punch at Sean's head. When the Lion Feeds
- he hit the ball round-arm
- Pont's plan was to remould Sharma's javelin hurl into a biomechanically perfect round-arm sling, in the process creating a fast-bowling Frankenstein's monster. Why Samit Patel's cricket skill set carries so much weight | Barney Ronay
- Throughout the fight Cantwell swung wildly at the champion with round-arm swings which Petelo easily avoided.