单词 | catch-hold |
释义 | † catch-holdn.adj. Chiefly Wrestling. Obsolete. A. n. A type of hold, typically of an improvised nature, in which an opponent is restrained or immobilized quickly and suddenly. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > wrestling > [noun] > manoeuvres swengOE turn?c1225 castc1400 trip1412 fall?a1425 foil1553 collar1581 lock1598 faulx1602 fore-hip1602 forward1602 inturn1602 mare1602 hug1617 disembracement1663 buttock1688 throw1698 back-lock1713 cross-buttock1713 flying horse1713 in holds1713 buttocker1823 chip1823 dogfall1823 cross-buttocker1827 hitch1834 bear hug1837 backfall1838 stop1840 armlock1841 side hug1842 click1846 catch-hold1849 back-breaker1867 back-click1867 snap1868 hank1870 nelson1873 headlock1876 chokehold1886 stranglehold1886 hip lock1888 heave1889 strangle1890 pinfall1894 strangler's grip1895 underhold1895 hammer-lock1897 scissor hold1897 body slam1899 scissors hold1899 armbar1901 body scissors1903 scissors grip1904 waist-hold1904 neck hold1905 scissors1909 hipe1914 oshi1940 oshi-dashi1940 oshi-taoshi1940 pindown1948 lift1958 whip1958 Boston crab1961 grapevine1968 powerbomb1990 1849 Bell's Life in London 14 Oct. 7/1 Sembler was a large athletic man, accustomed to field sports, and great at a catch hold. The result was..that the great tragedian went down. 1901 Evening Sentinel (Santa Cruz, Calif.) 9 May After some fiddling, Jenkins tried for a leg hold, but slipped to the mat, where the Turk secured a catch hold. 1925 E. C. Gallagher Amateur Wrestling xiv. 127 This is what is usually called a catch hold one gotten from flying or quickly moving positions. 1927 Queen's Jrnl. (Queen's Univ., Ontario) 7/1 In the final minute, Mr. Little..took his opponent by surprise, and threw him in workmanlike style with a catch hold followed by a head lock. B. adj. Designating a style of wrestling in which competitors are permitted to grasp one another with few or no restrictions on the type of hold or throw that may be employed (sometimes equated with catch-as-catch-can wrestling; cf. catch v. Phrases 3b); of or relating to this style of wrestling. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > wrestling > [adjective] > types of wrestling Cumberland1823 catch-hold1872 Graeco-Roman1888 all in1930 tag1955 1872 Bell's Life in London 23 Mar. 4/3 In whatever light I may be regarded as a wrestler in the Cumberland and Westmoreland style, I am no professor in the ‘catch hold’ system. 1889 W. Armstrong Wrestling 34 The catch-hold fashion is a most rational style of wrestling, as the competitors are not restricted by any rules as to taking and retaining a particular hold, but are at liberty to catch each other as they please. 1897 Pearson's Mag. June 635/2 Catch-as-catch-can..is sometimes called, more simply, the ‘Catch-hold’ style. 1903 Boy's Own Paper Aug. 767/1 The throw made from the double ankle-hold..requires the victim to bring his feet fairly close together, a mistake of which the catch-hold wrestler must never be guilty. 1922 Standard Ref. Work I. at Athletics Each county has its particular style of wrestling and tripping. In Lancashire, the catch-as-catch-can style; in Cumberland and Westmoreland, the back-hold system; in Devon and Cornwall, the catch-hold, etc. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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