crosshandedとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

crosshanded (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of cross-handed
   • 2004, Rob Rains, Rawlings Presents Big Stix: The Greatest Hitters in the History of the Major Leagues, →ISBN, page 2:

     He was a shortstop then, and he hit with a crosshanded grip — nobody had taught him the proper way to hold a bat.

   • 2011, Lawrence Block, A Ticket to the Boneyard, →ISBN:

     I moved the gun to the left side of my abdomen and practiced a crosshanded draw, but I liked that even less, and I thought about trying the shoulder holster again.

   • 1873, The Gospel standard, or Feeble Christian's support, page 342:

     So he answered me in a crosshanded way. And 0, friends, I was brought so low as to be glad of a crumb.

派生語

副詞

crosshanded (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of cross-handed
   • 1975, A. Th. M. Balen, First International Symposium on Artificial Lens implantation, →ISBN:

     If the required backhand stroke has not been made the surgeon finds himself unable to perform this essential manual aid, (unless he can work 'crosshanded').

   • 2004, Michael Winter, The Big Why: A Novel, page 176:

     Tom rowed crosshanded for half an hour.

   • 1978, Anwar El Sadat, Raphael Israeli, The Public Diary of President Sadat - Part 1, →ISBN, page 749:

     But it must be clear that it is inconceivable that Israel should introduce nuclear weapons to this zone while we watch crosshanded.

   • 1993, Thomas Johnson, Rescuing Claire, →ISBN, page 39:

     She grabbed her sweater crosshanded at the bottom, and with a swift snap (sail in a storm, flag in a strong breeze, whip on a horse's flank) was left with only her leotard (also black).

   • 2011, Harvey Penick, And If You Play Golf, You're My Friend: Furthur Reflections of a Grown Caddie., →ISBN:

     The first time they pick up a golf club and swing it, most children do it crosshanded.

語源

From cross +‎ handed.

形容詞

cross-handed (not comparable)

1. Done with hands or forearms crossed over each other.
   • 2013, Dan Joset, Boost Your Driving Range and Master Your Putting, →ISBN:

     The cross-handed grip helps in maintaining the wrist position.

2. Done by crossing the hand to the other side of the body.
   • 2014, Gordon MacQuarrie, More Stories of the Old Duck Hunters, →ISBN:

     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.

3. Involving two opposing directions.
   • 2011, Alexis Mendez, T. F. Morse, Specialty Optical Fibers Handbook, →ISBN, page 416:

     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.

4. (obsolete) Back-handed.
   • 1900, Signs of the Times, and Doctrinal Advocate and Monitor, Volume 68:

     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.

派生語

• cross-handedly

副詞

cross-handed (not comparable)

1. With hands or forearms crossed over each other.
   • 2009, Dr. Craig L. Farnsworth, The Putting Prescription: The Doctor's Proven Method for a Better Stroke, →ISBN, pages 42–43:

     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.

2. While crossing the hand to the other side of the body.
   • 2007, James Brady, Warning of War: A Novel of the North China Marines, →ISBN, page 297:

     Joe got them to rig him a holster so he could draw the .45 cross-handed.

3. In two opposing directions.
   • 1836 October, Washington Irving, chapter X, in Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. […], volume I, Philadelphia, Pa.: [Henry Charles] Carey, [Isaac] Lea, & Blanchard, →OCLC, pages 109–110:

     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: […]

   • 1975, Hans G. Furth, Harry Wachs, Thinking Goes to School: Piaget's Theory in Practice, →ISBN, page 79:

     Or he can walk cross-handed following the principle of the cross-legged walk. In this variation, he can move forward, backward, or sideways.

4. (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).
   • 1844, Rufus Dawes, Nix's Mate: An Historical Romance of America, →ISBN:

     Just then, a sailor, who had crossed the channel, and was making rapid headway, by rowing cross-handed, emerged from behind a merchant vessel which was moored at the wharf.

5. Idly.
   • 1978, Israel Digest - Volume 21, page 29:

     Why do we sit cross-handed and do nothing which would serve as a basis upon which to build the salvation of our people?

6. (obsolete) Back-handedly.
   • 1835, The Spiritual magazine, or Saint's Treasury, Volume XI, page 305:

     ..the end has been answered, though the channel of conveyance has been in direct opposition to what I wanted or expected, like as Jacob in blessing Joseph's sons, he wittingly—ah it is wittingly indeed, we are blessed; namely, cross-handed.