| 释义 |
† faulx Obs.
Also falx.
[a. OF. faulx, Fr. faux in faux de corps small of the back.]
A trick in wrestling; a grip round the ‘small of the back’.
1602Carew Cornwall 76 a, Many sleights and tricks appertaine hereunto [‘wrastling’]..such are the Trip, fore-Trip, Inturne, the Faulx, forward and backward. 1612Drayton Poly-olb. i. 6 They practise..The forward, back⁓ward, falx. |