| 释义 |
ˈunder-arm, a.
[under-2.]
1. a. Cricket. = underhand a. 1 c, d.
1816in Box Cricket (1877) 33 The ball may be twisted by the usual mode of under-arm bowling. 1882Daily Tel. 19 May, This brought on Humphreys, slow under-arm bowler.
b. In other sporting contexts. Also as adv.
1929W. E. Collinson Spoken Eng. 90 I'll have to serve underarm, I've strained my wrist. 1960E. W. Swanton West Indies Revisited 230 An under-arm throw by Smith. 1974Mills & Butler Tackle Badminton v. 39 Take a good underarm swing, turning your left shoulder towards the net. 1976Times 3 Feb. 9/4 When one recalls that most women of the period [sc. 1909] would have added a hat to the recommended [tennis] ensemble one can see why they had to serve under-arm.
2. Swimming. Of a stroke: Made with the arm below the level of the body. Also ellipt.
1905Times 10 Aug. 10/4 Burgess,..using his favourite under-arm stroke,..went off at a good pace. 1906Westm. Gaz. 18 Aug. 9/2 After the second hour he varied his stroke for a while to the underarm.
3. Dressmaking. Of a seam: that edges the lower half of the arm-hole of a garment, or that joins the underside of a sleeve or the side of a bodice.
1908M. E. Morgan How to dress Doll (1973) v. 43 Put the seam of the sleeve a little to the front of the under⁓arm seam. 1941L. I. Wilder Little Town on Prairie ix. 85 Laura sewed the whalebone stays onto the underarm seams. 1964McCall's Sewing xi. 161/1 Pin the underarm seam of bodice and sleeve. Ibid. 162/1 On the pattern there will be a slash marking at the curve of the underarm.
4. Of a bag or case: carried under the arm.
[1925T. Eaton & Co. Catal. Spring & Summer 279/1 Under-the-arm bag.] 1927Glasgow Herald 21 Jan. 8 Whatever she carries about with her she keeps in an attaché case, an ‘under-arm bag’, or some other receptacle. 1974Harrod's Christmas Catal. 19 Under-arm document case {pstlg}27.50.
5. Applied to various items of personal care used on the armpit, as under-arm deodorant, under-arm razor. Also under-arm odour.
1947H. M. McLuhan in Horizon Oct. 132 The means of defeating under-arm odour. 1968A. Diment Great Spy Race viii. 122 At twelve, showered, shaved with her small under-arm razor..we were on the coast road. 1976J. Wainwright Walther P. 38 21 You use under-arm deodorant. |