Cross-handed

Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective

Meaning

Done with hands or forearms crossed over each other..

Definitions by Sense

1. Done with hands or forearms crossed over each other.
2. Done by crossing the hand to the other side of the body.
3. Involving two opposing directions.
4. (obsolete) Back-handed.
5. With hands or forearms crossed over each other.
6. While crossing the hand to the other side of the body.
7. In two opposing directions.
8. (rowing) 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.

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.

Synonyms for cross-handed

Antonyms for cross-handed

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