frog hair

en-noun

frog hair (usually uncountable, plural frog hairs)

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(golf) The closely mown grass that surrounds a putting green, between the putting surface and any rough that might also surround the green.


en garde

(fencing) Used to warn one's opponent to take a defensive position prior to a fight.


en garde

(fencing) Ellipsis of en garde position.; the start position in fencing.


doubloon

From French doublon, from Spanish doblón, augmentative of doble (“double”), because it was worth twice a pistole.

English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Georges, and Louises, doubloons and double guineas and moidores and sequins, the pictures of all the kings of Europe for the last hundred years, strange Oriental pieces stamped with what looked like wisps of string or bits of spider's web, round pieces and square pieces, and pieces bored through the middle, as if to ware them round your neck – nearly every variety of money in the world must, I think, have found a place in that collection...

1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island:

(historical, numismatics) A former Spanish gold coin, also used in its American colonies. [from early 17th c.]

(Canada, slang, numismatics) Clipping of doubloonie.


VOC

VSC

volatile sulphur compound/volatile sulfur compound

(sports, Canada) Vancouver Organizing Committee; the organizer of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics


singlet

A single piece of clothing, particularly:

(sports) A one-piece, tight-fitting uniform, usually made of spandex or nylon, required in wrestling and powerlifting.

Einteiler

wrestling: one-piece, tight-fitting uniform, usually made of spandex or nylon


sailer

From Middle English sailer, sayler, saylere, equivalent to sail + -er.

(baseball) A fastball that skims through the air.


gyron

(heraldry) A triangular form having an angle at the fess point and the opposite side at the edge of the escutcheon.


mainspring

From main + spring. For figurative sense, compare spring (“source, origin”).

He was wise, for he had seen a long succession of mechanical toys arrive to boast and swagger, and by-and-by break their mainsprings and pass away.

1921 June, Margery Williams, “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real”, in Harper’s Bazar, volume LVI, number 6 (2504 overall), New York, N.Y.: International Magazine Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:

(horology) The principal spring of a clockwork mechanism, which drives it by uncoiling.

զսպանակ

the principal spring of a clockwork mechanism


bentwood

bentwood (countable and uncountable, plural bentwoods)

About this time [Michael] Thonet received his first major public commission from the famous Cafe Daum in Vienna. From this point on, the bentwood chair would be known by many as the Cafe Chair[…]. The back is made of four layers of twisted mahogany laminates, while the front legs appear to be bent from solid stock with turned capitals, which act as shoulders for the tenon of the leg into the seat. The seat frames are made of five layers of mahogany, as they were in the Schwarzenburg chairs. Because of its lightness, durability and accommodating design, the bentwood chair was perfectly suited for public places.

1985, “Michael Thonet”, in Fine Woodworking on Bending Wood: 35 Articles Selected by the Editors of Fine Woodworking Magazine, Newtown, Ct.: Taunton Press, →ISBN, page 56:

Bentwood furniture is made by bending and nailing long, straight, fresh branches or suckers of trees around a frame. Unlike most stick work, bentwood furniture is carefully planned before it is made.

1992, Daniel Mack, “Contemporary Styles of Rustic Furniture”, in Making Rustic Furniture, New York, N.Y.: Lark Books, →ISBN, page 42:

(woodworking, countable and uncountable, sometimes attributive) Lengths of wood that have been made pliable by heating with steam and then bent into the appropriate shape (to make furniture, ships' hulls, etc.).

Bugholz

wood that has been made pliable and bent


AMF

AMF (countable and uncountable, plural AMFs)

attacking midfielder
attacking midfielder#English

(soccer) Acronym of attacking midfielder.


counterstrike

From counter- + strike. Compare counterstroke.

(military, sports) The tactic of counterattacking


clonk

(fishing) A stick-like tool used to strike the surface of the water and produce a sound that causes nearby fish to attack the bait.


chicken-wing

en-verb

chicken-wing (third-person singular simple present chicken-wings, present participle chicken-winging, simple past and past participle chicken-winged)

chicken-wings (present singular third-person)
chicken-winging (participle present)
chicken-winged (participle past)
chicken-winged (past)

Don't chicken-wing it!

(volleyball, humorous) To pass a hard-hit ball with the upper arm extended out from the body. This usually has the lower arm pulled in toward the body and is reminiscent of a chicken's wings when trussed.


off base

The hippo heard us, and, like a baseball player caught off base, tried to get back to the river.

1907, Richard Harding Davis, chapter 5, in The Congo and Coasts of Africa:

(not comparable, baseball, of a baserunner) Positioned somewhere between the bases, and hence vulnerable to being caught out.


mainline

(fishing) In longline fishing the central line to which the branch lines with baits are attached.


flaps

Giges or flappes, is pimples or teates in the in side of his mouth.

1587, Leonard Mascall, The First Booke of Cattell, London: John Wolfe, page 163:

If there be any ſwelling betweene the eares, it is a ſigne of the Pole-evil: ſwelling under the eare, a ſigne of the Vives; and ſwelling in the mouth, a ſigne either of Canker, Flaps, Lampaſſe.

1610, Gervase Markham, “Of the signes of sicknesse, and of what nature it consisteth”, in Markhams Maister-peece. Contayning All Knowledge Belonging to the Smith, Farrier, or Horse-leech, Touching the Curing of All Diseases in Horses: […], 5th edition, London: […] Nicholas and Iohn Okes, […], published 1636, →OCLC, 1st book (Containing All Cures Physicall, […]), page 32:

Theſe Giggs, Bladders or Flaps, proceed either from eating too much Graſs, or that which is bad; or Hay or Provender that is rough and pricking.

1726, N. B. Philippos, The Farrier's and Horseman's Dictionary, London: J. Darby, page 247:

The Flaps are a ſpungy, fleſhy, fungous ſubftance, ſituated juſt below the grinders on the lower jaw, adjoining the cheek, on the part where the bit reſteth upon. The above is ſo troubleſome to a Horſe and ſo ſore, that he will often catch the Flaps between his grinders, which chafes him much, and prevents him to grind his food, and cauſes him to ſlaver and ſlober much.

1784, William Griffiths, A Practical Treatise on Farriery, Wrexham, Wales: R. Marsh, page 119:

These likewise sometimes enlarge during catarrh or imflammation of the mouth, and are called gigs, and bladders, and flaps in the mouth.

1843, William Youatt, The Horse, London: Chapman & Hall, page 206:

(farriery, archaic) A disease in the mouths of horses involving inflammation in the cheeks or lips.


free climbing

(climbing) Rock climbing without the aid of ropes or other equipment, sometimes in an urban environment


the bigs

He played AA ball for years, but never made it to the bigs.


miler

But the master himself was an old Oxford miler, who could still bear it better than I; nay, as I flagged and stumbled, I heard him pounding steadily behind.

1905, E.W. Hornung, A Thief in the Night:

The champion sprinter is seldom a five-miler as well.

1907, Arthur Conan Doyle, Through the Magic Door:

Indeed, with a world record‐holder or Olympic champion in almost every race, with six milers who have broken 4 minutes, eight high jumpers who can top 7 feet and seven pole vaulters who have cleared 17 feet, there is no way guessing how many Olympic champions‐elect will be on display in the hatbox over Penn Station.

1972 January 28, “Sports of The Times”, in The New York Times:

(sports, often in combination) An athlete or a horse who specializes in running races of one mile, or a specified number of miles.


run in

run in (third-person singular simple present runs in, present participle running in, simple past ran in, past participle run in)

runs in (present singular third-person)
running in (participle present)
ran in (past)
run in (participle past)

Toeava went over unopposed to stretch his side's lead but Japan got on the scoreboard on 56 minutes, wing Hirotoki Onozawa intercepting an attempted offload from Slade, who had a rather flaky game, and running in from the All Blacks' 10m line.

2011 September 16, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: New Zealand 83-7 Japan”, in BBC Sport:


sword hand

(fencing) The hand in which one's sword is normally held.


on guard

en-adj

on guard (comparative more on guard, superlative most on guard)

more on guard (comparative)
most on guard (superlative)

We fall on guard, and after all it is a friend who comes to meet us.

1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:

(fencing) The starting position of a fencing bout; en garde.


circular parry

en-noun

circular parry (plural circular parries)

(fencing): a defensive move in fencing; a parry in which the blade moves in a circle to block an opponent's attack from the opposite side from which it started (sometimes called a contra- or counter-parry)


pean

Derived from Middle French penne (“feather”), from penna (“feather”); doublet of pen and penna.

der+

(heraldry) A heraldic fur of gold spots on a black field.


pean

(heraldry): In blazon, a heraldic fur of a black field. with gold spots

kontraguldhermelin

of black colour with gold spots on a coat of arms


high line

(fencing) The target area above the opponent's midriff.


low line

(fencing) The target area below the opponent's midriff.


doublé

(fencing) A compound attack that deceives the opponent's attempted circular parry.


rassemblement

(fencing) The bringing together of both feet, with the body upright, in order to outreach an opponent.


sixte

Borrowed from French sixte, from Middle French sixte, from Old French siste, sixte, modification of sexte (“sixth”) (a borrowing from Latin sextus) after sis (“six”).

(fencing) The sixth defensive position, with the sword hand held at chest height, and the tip of the sword at eye level.


glissade

(fencing) A fencing move that may disarm the opponent (Wikipedia).


compound attack

en-noun

compound attack (plural compound attacks)

(fencing) An attack consisting of more than one feint.


sword arm

(fencing) The arm in which one's sword is normally held.


backflip

The gymnast performed a backflip on a trampoline.

(gymnastics) An act of rotating one's body 360 degrees in the backward direction.


shakeout

(sports) The shaking of one's arms or legs, in order to resist muscle fatigue.


bench jockey

As verbal jousting is frequently called "riding", the "rider" sitting on a bench came to be known as the "bench jockey".

(US, idiomatic, slang, baseball) A player, coach or manager who verbally annoys and distracts opposition players and umpires from his team's dugout bench.


army golf

The term stems from the army marching cadence: left-right-left. In other words, a golfer hits one shot to the left, the next to the right, and very few of them straight.

I play army golf; right, left, right, left from one side of the course to the other. More than I would like, I hit the ball into shrubs or trees rather than into the generous mowed areas of grass.

2002, John P. Borden, The Complete Guide for the Romantically Challenged Male, page 102:

(golf, slang, humorous, derogatory) The situation when a player is spraying the golf ball all over the golf course in different directions.


feel the burn

en-verb

feel the burn (third-person singular simple present feels the burn, present participle feeling the burn, simple past and past participle felt the burn)

feels the burn (present singular third-person)
feeling the burn (participle present)
felt the burn (participle past)
felt the burn (past)

The phrase was popularized by actress Jane Fonda in her highly successful 1980s aerobic exercise videotapes.

“Feel the burn!” Norm says, as Peoria lies over on a reverse lateral pulley system, ass up high, knees jerking back with the weight of fifty-five pounds.

2014, Michael Hastings, The Last Magazine, Penguin, →ISBN:

(sports) To feel the burning sensation arising in a muscle being intensely exercised; often used as an exhortation to extend oneself in physical exercise.


crash pad

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(climbing) A protective foam pad placed on the ground, used as protection in case of falling from the wall.


épéeist

(fencing) A fencer who competes with an épée sword.


Super Bowl

From super + bowl, from bowl games such as the Rose Bowl Game and Orange Bowl.

(American football) The championship game of the NFL played in early February played between two teams, one each in the American Football Conference and National Football Conference.

Jooł Yitalíjí Akéeʼdi Ahąąh Honinééhígíí


grist

en-noun

grist (countable and uncountable, plural grists)

From Middle English grist, gryst, from Old English grist, gyrst (“the action of grinding, corn for grinding, gnashing”), of obscure origin: possibly from a pre-Germanic substrate language, or from a derivative of Proto-Germanic *gredaną (“to crunch”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to rub, grind”). Cognate with Old Saxon gristgrimmo (“gnashing of the teeth”), German Griesgram (“a grumbler, a grouch, peevishness, misery”), Old English gristel (“gristle”).

cog

(ropemaking) A given size of rope, common grist being a rope three inches in circumference, with twenty yarns in each of the three strands.


pan

en-verb

pan (third-person singular simple present pans, present participle panning, simple past and past participle panned)

pans (present singular third-person)
panning (participle present)
panned (participle past)
panned (past)

(intransitive, photography) To move the camera lens angle while continuing to expose the film, enabling a contiguous view and enrichment of context. In still-photography large-group portraits the film usually remains on a horizontal fixed plane as the lens and/or the film holder moves to expose the film laterally. The resulting image may extend a short distance laterally or as great as 360 degrees from the point where the film first began to be exposed.


Hughie

From Hugh + -ie. Regarding rain, various etymologies have been proposed; see Send 'er down, Hughie!.

2006, DC Green, Surf Europe
Pipe scowled. “Hughie... send us swell! Not just any swell, but a grand macking swell! In return, we pray you will accept this near-virginal surfboard sacrifice that we make in your name!”

(surfing, chiefly humorous) Imaginary god who creates surf (waves, and associated conditions).


move the yardsticks

move the yardsticks (third-person singular simple present moves the yardsticks, present participle moving the yardsticks, simple past and past participle moved the yardsticks)

moves the yardsticks (present singular third-person)
moving the yardsticks (participle present)
moved the yardsticks (participle past)
moved the yardsticks (past)

The phrase originates from American football, where every ten yards of forward progress by the offense moves the yardsticks ahead to measure the next ten yards of progress.


fizgig

Possibly from Spanish fisga (“harpoon”).

At day break we were cloſe by the Peninſule Mozambique (part of Quiloa) inhabited by Negroes; abundant in Gold, Silver, and Ambergreece; […] [A]n Armado of Dolphins aſſaulted us; and ſuch we ſaulted as we could intice to taſte our hooks or fiſſgiggs: […]

1638, Tho[mas] Herbert [Sir Thomas Herbert, 1st Baronet], Some Yeares Travels into Divers Parts of Asia and Afrique. […] , rev. and enl. (2nd) edition, London: Printed by R[ichard] Bi[sho]p for Iacob Blome and Richard Bishop, →OCLC, book I, page 24:

FIZGIG, ſ[ubſtantive] [a ſort of dart or harpoon with which ſeamen ſtrike fiſh.] Sorte de harpon.

[1785, A[bel] Boyer, Lewis [i.e., Louis] Chambaud, J[ean-]B[aptiste] Robinet, “FIZGIG”, in A. Boyer’s New Dictionary English and French: and French and English. Containing the Signification of Words, with Their Different Uses; the Terms of Arts, Sciences and Trades; the Constructions, Forms of Speech, Idioms, and Proverbs Used in Both Languages: the Whole Extracted from the Best Writers; Corrected, Improved and Enlarged, volume II (Containing the English before the French), Paris: C[harles-Joseph] Panckoucke; Amsterdam: D. J. Changuion and B. Vlam; Utrecht: B. Wild, →OCLC, page 206, column 3:

[T]he inhabitants of this bay appeared to possess, in general, a very pointed difference from, if not a superiority over, those of New South Wales, particularly in their net-works. There was no doubt but they were provided with nets for catching very large fish, or animals; […] Mr. [Matthew] Flinders was of opinion, that this mode of procuring their food would cause a characteristic difference between the manners, and perhaps the dispositions of these people, and of those who mostly depend upon the spear or fizgig for a supply.

1811, [G. Paterson], chapter XXXI, in The History of New South Wales, from Its First Discovery to the Present Time; Comprising an Accurate and Interesting Description of that Vast and Remarkable Country; […] , Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Printed and published by Mackenzie and Dent, St. Nicholas' Church-yard, →OCLC, page 357:

[T]wo of these red Indians in a boat, and they just paddle soft, paddle soft, as still as still, and they come up to the turtles as they lie asleep in the sea, and then. Whang. They dart their fizgigs. They never miss.

1908, John Masefield, Captain Margaret: A Romance, London: G. Richards, →OCLC, page 104:

(fishing) A spear with a barb on the end of it, used for catching fish, frogs, or other small animals; a type of harpoon.

тризъбец

spear with a barb on the end of it, used for catching fish, etc.


jumar

From the name of the Swiss firm Jümar Pangit which manufactured it, in turn from the surnames of Adolf Jüsy and Walter Marti.

Jacob handed her the ATC belay device and jumar.

2019, Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift, Hogarth, page 552:

(climbing) A device, used to clip on a rope, that tightens when weight is applied, thus allowing the rope to be climbed.


autoradiograph

(photography) A photograph image produced by placing a film in contact with a specimen containing (or treated with) radioactive material; an autoradiogram


pari-mutuel

en-noun

pari-mutuel (plural pari-mutuels or paris-mutuels)

pari-mutuels (plural)
paris-mutuels (plural)

There is also a pari-mutuel option. You and a friend can wager that you will each lose 15 pounds over the next two months. If you both succeed, the money is returned. But if one fails while the other succeeds, then the loser pays the winner. If you both fail, then the one who loses the most is the winner.

2008, Avinash K. Dixit and Barry J. Nalebuff, The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life, W.W Norton & Company, p. 208

(horse racing) Any betting system in which all bets of a particular type are placed together in a pool; taxes and a house take are removed, and payoff odds are calculated by sharing the pool among all placed bets.


koka

koka (countable and uncountable, plural kokas)

The referee shall announce "koka" (almost yuko) when in his opinion the technique applied by the contestant merits the score of koka (almost yuko). Should either contestant score two or further kokas, then the referee shall announce them as they are scored but shall not stop the contest for that reason.

1978, AAU Official Rules, Judo, Amateur Athletic Union of the United States, page 15:

As with yukos, kokas are not accumulative, so no amount of kokas are deemed equal to or greater than a yuko.

2008, Roy Inman, The Judo Handbook, page 25:

(judo) The smallest technical score that can be awarded in a judo competition.


loper

(ropemaking) A swivel placed at one end of the ropewalk, with the whirl being at the opposite end.


stalking horse

(dated, hunting) A horse used as cover by a hunter stalking game.

засло́нная ло́шадь

a horse used as cover by a hunter stalking game


take a seat

en-verb

take a seat (third-person singular simple present takes a seat, present participle taking a seat, simple past took a seat, past participle taken a seat)

takes a seat (present singular third-person)
taking a seat (participle present)
took a seat (past)
taken a seat (participle past)

(sports) To be benched, to leave the area of play


Senior Circuit

(baseball) The National League, the older of Major League Baseball's two leagues.


Junior Circuit

(baseball) The American League, the younger of Major League Baseball's two leagues.


contact sport

(sports) An athletic contest which involves a significant amount of physical contact between the participating athletes.


full time

en-noun

full time (usually uncountable, plural full times)


snoot

From Scots snoot, snout (“snout”), from Middle English snowte, from Middle Dutch snute; ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *snūt, from Proto-Germanic *snūtaz. Doublet of snout.

Snoots have traditionally been round in shape when attached to studio strobes, but with flash photography, they have taken on a more rectangular shape because the flash heads are rectangular.

2014 December 26, Alyn Stafford, Flash Techniques for Location Portraiture: Single and Multiple-Flash Lighting Techniques, Amherst Media, →ISBN, page 36:

(theater, photography) A cylindrical or conical attachment used on a spotlight to restrict spill light.

veitsi

theater: cylindrical or conical attachment on a spotlight


snoot

en-verb

snoot (third-person singular simple present snoots, present participle snooting, simple past and past participle snooted)

snoots (present singular third-person)
snooting (participle present)
snooted (participle past)
snooted (past)

Which might mean shaping it, gelling it, snooting it, barn dooring it, and putting it on a stand or a clamp. Maybe taking the dome diffuser off. Perhaps zooming it. Oh my. And you thought you were just taking a picture.

(transitive, theater, photography) To apply a snoot attachment to (a light).


race card

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(sports) A printed card or pamphlet giving information about a series of horse races and listing the horses to be run; a racebook.

kilpailuohjelma

printed card or pamphlet listing horses to be run in a horse race


bruiser

(sports) In contact sports, an athlete whose size, strength, and/or aggressiveness make it likely that they will cause athletes on the opposing team to suffer physical punishment.

Bulle

an athlete who likely will cause physical punishment


Rover

(sports) Someone connected with any number of teams called the Rovers, as a fan, player, coach etc.

(soccer) someone connected with Blackburn Rovers FC, as a fan, player, coach etc.


clubhouse

(golf) A building at a golf course that houses various activities associated with golf.


bench-press

bench-press (third-person singular simple present bench-presses, present participle bench-pressing, simple past and past participle bench-pressed)

bench-presses (present singular third-person)
bench-pressing (participle present)
bench-pressed (participle past)
bench-pressed (past)

(weightlifting) To press the weight of a barbell away from one's body while lying on a bench.


mashed potatoes

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During late-season skiing, I have encountered ice in the morning and mashed potatoes in the afternoon.

19841 November, Richard C. Sailiant, “Ask Skiing [letter]”, in Skiing, page 38:

The Eastern ski tribe could confidently expect much ice underfoot while the Western contingent could expect much mashed potatoes around the ankles.

1996 Spring-Summer, Morten Lund, “Skiing Down Those Golden Years with John Jay”, in Skiing Heritage Journal, page 7:

I climbed back through the bottomless mashed potatoes as quickly as I could, relieved to see that his ski was off, with his foot pointing in a normal direction— not the skis’.

2001 October 1, Paul Parker, Free-Heel Skiing: Telemark and Parallel Techniques for All Conditions, 3rd edition, Seattle: The Mountaineers Books, →ISBN, →OL, page 185:

(skiing) Partially melted snow with a pulpy texture, making for slow skiing.


OOP

en-noun

OOP (countable and uncountable, plural OOPs)

(tennis) Initialism of order of play (“the schedule of contests in a tennis event”).


beatdown

beatdown (countable and uncountable, plural beatdowns)

Deverbal from beat down; influenced by earlier throwdown.

professional wrestling
professional wrestling

(professional wrestling, slang) A prescribed situation, usually to advance an angle or establish character, where two or more wrestlers severely beat up another wrestler or performer.


no-trade clause

no-trade clause (plural no-trade clauses)

(US, sports) A clause in a contract by players who do not wish to be traded without their consent.


madonna

Said to be named after the American singer Madonna.

(skateboarding) A one-footed lien-to-tail trick, where the front foot is taken off and kicked out straight down behind the board.


cherry blossom

cherry blossom (countable and uncountable, plural cherry blossoms)

The cherry blossom was in use in Heian times...For obvious reasons it become the mon of the Sakurai family.

1976, W. M. Hawley, Kei Kaneda Chappelear, Mon: The Japanese Family Crest, page 27:

(heraldry) A stylized depiction of the blossom of the cherry tree, as used in Japanese mon.


bench press

...Nubret has pushed and pulled maniacally at iron while sustaining a diet that would explode an ordinary metabolism—doing for that renowned chest, for instance, forty sets of twenty benchpresses (pushing 210 pounds off his chest a total of eight hundred times every other day)[…]

1974, Charles Gaines, George Butler, Pumping Iron: The Art and Sport of Bodybuilding, page 18:

(weightlifting) An exercise performed by pressing the weight of a barbell away from one's body while lying on a bench.


bench press

en-verb

bench press (third-person singular simple present bench presses, present participle bench pressing, simple past and past participle bench pressed)

bench presses (present singular third-person)
bench pressing (participle present)
bench pressed (participle past)
bench pressed (past)

I went home and bench pressed 30 pounds more than I had ever done before.

1988, Frederick C. Hatfield, “Powersource: Ties that bind”, in Ironman, 47 (6): 21:

And I’m definitely getting stronger. I can now bench press — oh — at least 10 kilos without my arms collapsing underneath me.

2017 November 16, Jo Ellison, “Help: the gym has turned us into slobs”, in Financial Times:


blackwash

en-noun

blackwash (countable and uncountable, plural blackwashes)

From black + -wash or black + wash (depending on sense).

(slang, cricket) A whitewash victory for the West Indies cricket team. Started in the 1984–86 "Blackwash" series of the West Indian cricket team in England in 1984.


time of pitch

(baseball) The moment when the pitcher begins the motion of pitching the ball and, by the rules of the game, has committed himself to throwing the pitch.


black belt

(martial arts) The highest belt colour in various martial arts.

حِزَام أَسْوَد

highest belt color in various martial arts

Raymond is a black belt in karate.

(martial arts) Someone who has attained the black belt in martial arts.

not used in Finnish (instead say jollakulla on musta vyö "someone has a black belt")


murrey

murrey (countable and uncountable, plural murreys)

From Middle English murrey, murreye, from Middle French moré, morée, from Latin moratum, morata, from neuter and feminine respectively of moratus (“mulberry-colored”), from morum (“mulberry”) + -atus (“-ate”).

murrey:

(heraldry) A tincture, the colour of mulberries, between gules (red) and purpure (purple).


alley cat

(cycling) An informal bicycle race with checkpoints.


shutout

The score wasn't just lopsided: it was a shutout.

(sports) A game that ends with the losing side being held scoreless.

на нула

game that ends with one side not having scored


flyaway

(gymnastics) A kind of dismount from bars that incorporates one or more flips or twists.


ATA

American Taekwondo Association
w:American Taekwondo Association

(martial arts) Initialism of American Taekwondo Association.

American Tennis Association
w:American Tennis Association

(tennis) Initialism of American Tennis Association.


baserunner

(baseball, softball) A player who is on base and is thus trying to advance to the next base.


service line

(tennis, badminton) The line, in tennis and similar sports, from behind which the ball is initially served and which the feet must not cross when serving.


pfennig

From German Pfennig. Doublet of penny and fening.

(historical, numismatics) One hundredth of the former German mark (Deutsche Mark).


cushioned

en-adj

cushioned (comparative more cushioned, superlative most cushioned)

more cushioned (comparative)
most cushioned (superlative)


balking

balking (comparative more balking, superlative most balking)

more balking (comparative)
most balking (superlative)

These large discrepancies must stem from inconsistencies in interpretation rather than the possibility that one crew was constantly drawing more balking pitchers than another.

2013, Peter E. Meltzer, So You Think You Know Baseball?, page 107:

Yes, I'm saying umpire shouldn't even make a balk call unless there is evidence that the balking player was deliberately trying to deceive the opposition.

2016, Norman Keifetz, Belle of the Ball:

A balking pitcher sends everyone home, including the runner on third—and the visiting team has another loss in the record book.

2016, Tom DeMichael, Baseball FAQ: All That's Left to Know About America's Pastime:

(sports) That makes motions which attempt to deceive the opponent.


pig dog

Calque of German Schweinehund.
(surfing stance): Taj Burrow offers two (perhaps fanciful) explanations: that it is from the strange dog-like face most surfers get when in the stance (page 119) or that the stance is low and sturdy like a dog (glossary page 171).

The trick here is to do a so-called “pig-dog”. Standing sideways on your board with your back to the wave you will stall by twisting forward (in relation to the tip of your board) shoulder back, and using the arm belonging to it, drag your hand in the water. At the same time your rear hand grabs just behind the outside rail just somewhere near your forward foot. Now look at yourself and you will know why it is called a ‘pig-dog’.

2008, Peter Diel, Eric Menges, Surfing: In Search of the Perfect Wave, page 99:

(surfing) A stance used for surfing tubes on one’s backhand. The surfer crouches low over a bent front knee, back leg extending back, outside hand holding onto the outside rail, and inside arm extended upwards touching the face of the wave as a guide (or digging in to slow down).


pursuivant

From Middle English pursevant et al., from Old French pursuivant, present participle of pursuivre (“to follow”). Doublet of pursuant.

The herald Hope, forerunning Fear, / And Fear, the pursuivant of Hope.

1845, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, To A Child:

(heraldry) A functionary of lower rank than a herald, but discharging similar duties; called also pursuivant at arms; an attendant of the heralds, e.g. in the College of Arms.


irradiated

irradiated (comparative more irradiated, superlative most irradiated)

more irradiated (comparative)
most irradiated (superlative)

Per Fess, Or, and Argent, a Rose irradiated Gules, therefrom issuant two Griphons' heads addorsed Sable. William Barlow.

1829, Stephen Hyde Cassan, Lives of the bishops of Bath and Wells, page 65:

A Lion of England imperially crowned, between three roses gules in chief, and as many argent in base, barbed, seeded, and irradiated or […]

1893, John Edwin Cussans, Handbook of Heraldry, page 277:

[...] a naked child seized by a bear passant sable semee d'estoiles or, on a chief argent three roses gules irradiated.

1897, William Kirkpatrick Riland Bedford, The Blazon of Episcopacy … of England and Wales, page 187:

Azure, on a cross quarterly pierced or, four chevrons gules, with an honourable augmentation, a chief argent, thereon a rose gules, irradiated gold, within a wreath of oak proper.

1899, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, Armorial Families, page 878:

Quarterly : 1st and 4th, Sable, a fesse wavy between two estoiles irradiated argent, Drake; 2nd, Gules, on a bend or, a baton azure, on a chief the arms of[…]

1902, Joseph Jackson Howard, Visitation of England and Wales, page 1:

[...] in her dexter hand a pair of scales or, and in her sinister a touchstone sable, her head irradiated.

1915, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, The Book of Public Arms, London : T.C. & E.C. Jack, page 326:

Crest — Rising from the top of a lighthouse argent irradiated or a martlet azure.

2020 April 20, Susan Morris, Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage 2019, eBook Partnership, →ISBN, page 2780:


seeing eye ball

en-noun

seeing eye ball (plural seeing eye balls)

Jones hit a seeing eye ball between third and short for a single his last time up.

(baseball) A batted ball that gets between several fielders.


shoestring catch

shoestring catch (plural shoestring catches)

Jones races in... and makes a fine shoestring catch in shallow center.

(baseball) A fielding play, typically made by an outfielder, who catches a ball near his shoes, often after a long run.


fungo bat

The fielding coach used his fungo bat to help Jones work on his first step.

(baseball) A specially designed small-diameter bat used to hit fly balls for fielding practice.


squeeze play

The squeeze play is on! Jones bunts, and Smith scores from third.

(baseball) The tactic of bunting the ball to help a runner at third base score.


reducer

(photography) A liquid used in the process of developing a negative to reduce its darkness.

Koulibaly flattens Steven Bergwijn with a reducer from behind but avoids a booking. Bergwijn gets to his feet and blows his cheeks in frustration. I think that really hurt but he doesn’t want to show it.

21 November 2022, Barry Glendenning, Live Feed: Senegal v Netherlands, The Guardian

(soccer) The reduction of the contribution to a football game of a more talented opponent by intimidation using a brutal tackle.


single-elimination tournament

single-elimination tournament (plural single-elimination tournaments)

(sports) A tournament where the loser of a game or match is eliminated from further competition.


seel

en-verb

seel (third-person singular simple present seels, present participle seeling, simple past and past participle seeled)

seels (present singular third-person)
seeling (participle present)
seeled (participle past)
seeled (past)

From Middle English silen, from Old French siller, ciller (“to sew up the eyelids of, hoodwink, wink”), from cil (“eyelid”), from Latin cilium (“eyelid, eyelash”).

Hey who does blindly soar at Rhodalind[…]
Mounts, like seel'd doves, still higher[…]

(falconry) To sew together the eyes of a young hawk.


curler

The captain sent a curler into the top corner of the net.

Lampard was replaced by Kalou but the substitute immediately gave the ball to Jonas, whose 25-yard curler was tipped wide by Cech.

2011 September 28, Jon Smith, “Valencia 1-1 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport:

Liverpool were energised at the start of the second half, with Curtis Jones shaping a curler just past the far post.

2024 February 4, David Hytner, “Arsenal ignite title hopes as Gabriel Martinelli punishes Liverpool error”, in The Guardian:

(soccer) A pass or a shot of the ball which swerves.

Oft considered the most even playing field on which to measure surf mastery, Slater’s innovative machine is a barrel-synthesizing environment and engineering feat. In a single round, The Wave produces a 6-foot curler capable of traveling 2,300 feet for up to one gnarly minute.

2021 August 25, Jilli Cluff, “Kelly Slater’s Artificial Wave Will Crown ‘The Ultimate Surfer’ on Hulu”, in GearJunkie:

There’s the mesmeric, thrumming beat. (Sound very much “on” for this one.) Dark purples and roiling seas under heavy storms. Then Manuel, barreling perfect curler after perfect curler.

2023 March 18, Sam Anderson, “Weekend Warm-Up: Liquid Lines, Entrancing Tunes, Mesmerizing Moments in ‘MALIA’”, in Explorersweb:

(surfing) A wave which breaks with a barrel


pressure point

For this strike, if your thumb is tucked correctly, you should hit the pressure point where their arm meets their shoulder.

(martial arts) A specific small area of the body targeted, due to a cluster of nerves being close to the skin, usually not protected by bone.


bolero

Edward's attention was at first rivetted on two dancers engaged in their graceful national dance, the bolero. What a blessing to a people is a climate that encourages out-of-door amusement!

1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 335:

(dance) A lively Spanish dance in 3/4 time; also an unrelated slower-tempo dance of Cuban origin, in 2/4 time.


ever-present

(British, sports) An athlete who is present in every contest.


prizefighting

en-noun

prizefighting (usually uncountable, plural prizefightings)

See prizefight. Originally Prize Playing, with play referring to sparring, a practice fight. By surface analysis, prize + fighting.

OF all the people gathered on Ninth Avenue Wednesday night to watch Marc Jacobs's spring 2003 runway show, I'm fairly sure I was the only one thinking about prizefighting.

2002 September 22, Ron Fried, “VIEW; Separated at Birth: Fashion and Prize Fights”, in The New York Times:

(sports) Professional boxing, in which two fighters compete for a prize.


utility man

(baseball) Alternative form of utilityman


exergue

/ɪɡˈzɜː(ɹ)ɡ/

In farther eviction of what has been advanced, relative to the initial letters in the exergues of certain Sidonian coins; it may not be improper to observe, that a medal in my small collection exhibits the letter Hheth, immediately after the numerical inscription in the exergue.

1765, Philosophical Transactions, page 138:

In childhood I must have felt with the energy of a man what I now find stamped upon memory in lines as vivid, as deep, and as durable as the exergues of the Carthaginian medals.

(numismatics) A space beneath the main design on a coin or medal for the insertion of the date or other minor inscription.


tetradrachm

/ˈtɛtɹədɹæm/

From Ancient Greek τετράδραχμον (tetrádrakhmon). See tetra- (“four”).

uder

τετράδραχμον

(historical, numismatics) A silver coin in Ancient Greece, equivalent to four drachms.

Alexander the Great
Heracles
Temnos
Zeus


freeball

Just about every play in the game, service reception, general play and freeball, involves the use of the front A and/or back A, although they are not always set.

1981, National Volleyball Coaches Association Technical Journal:

Areas of emphasis can be: team blocking, serve reception, attack combinations, freeball execution, and spiker coverage.

1985, Bob Bertucci Tina Kogut Bertucci, Ralph Hippolyte, Championship Volleyball Drills: Combination and complex training, page 99:

By serving tough, using effective downball placement, not giving easy freeballs and simply attacking smartly and in a tough manner.

1998, The American Volleyball Coaches Association, Coaching Volleyball, page 34:

(volleyball) A ball that has been hit from below the top of the net.


freeball

en-verb

freeball (third-person singular simple present freeballs, present participle freeballing, simple past and past participle freeballed)

freeballs (present singular third-person)
freeballing (participle present)
freeballed (participle past)
freeballed (past)

But we can't just freeball it to them because they will kill it right back at you.

2017 September 6, Josh Seguin, “Hodsdon nets 500th career kill as STA sweeps Hilltoppers”, in Seacoastonline:


marshalling

en-noun

marshalling (countable and uncountable, plural marshallings)

(heraldry) The arrangement of an escutcheon to exhibit the alliances of the owner.


couched

Holmes gives us the Arms of the Name of TOURNEY, Or, a Cheveron couched Gules, Fig. 15. IF it be turned to the other Side, says he, it is termed couched sinister;[…]

1722, Alexander Nisbet, A System of Heraldry Speculative and Practical, page 160:

Argent, on a fesse sable, three chevronels couched sinister of the field. - TRENOWITH, Corn.

1894, Henry Gough, James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, page 111:

(heraldry) Of a chevron, issuing from the side rather than from the bottom or top of the shield; couché.


jiao

Borrowed from Mandarin 角 (jiǎo). Doublet of kak.

People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China

(numismatics) A currency unit of the People's Republic of China, one tenth of a yuan.

毫

a currency unit of the People's Republic of China, one tenth of a yuan


back slap

(martial arts) A controlled landing, slapping to the mat with one's back.

(sports) An encouraging pat on one's back.


Air Force

Air Force Falcons
w:en:Air Force Falcons

United States Air Force Academy
w:en:United States Air Force Academy

(US, sports) Ellipsis of Air Force Falcons. sports teams representing the United States Air Force Academy


LH

(philately) Initialism of lightly hinged.


contra dance

[T]he Duchess, and the dandies, and the member's wife and all the rest of their tribulations, were happily hidden from the view by the towering bouquets of the gold plateau vases at the head of the room. [...] A contra-dance after supper was felt to be a national duty; but behind those fatal vases a plot had already been concocted by the recondites for rewarding their previous self-denial, not by a quadrille, but a galoppe.

1836, [Catherine Gore], chapter VIII, in Mrs. Armytage; or, Female Domination. […] In Three Volumes, volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 134:

(dance) A type of folk dance style in which couples dance in two facing lines of indefinite length.


Proteas

(cricket) The South African cricket team


'roid rage

(bodybuilding) Alternative spelling of roid rage


affronted

en-adj

affronted (comparative more affronted, superlative most affronted)

more affronted (comparative)
most affronted (superlative)

PROVENANCE The arms on f.25 are argent a lion rampant affronted azure, with claws and tongue gules; these are perhaps the arms of Acciajaoli, of Florence (cf. the sale in these rooms, 7 December 1992, lot 74), or Nini, of Siena[…]

1994 06, Sotheby's (Firm), Western Manuscripts and Miniatures:


jointer

Any of various tools used to construct or finish joints, especially:

(woodworking) The largest kind of plane used by a joiner.


dewdrop

From Middle English deu drop, dew droppe, dewe droppe, equivalent to dew + drop. Compare Dutch dauwdruppel (“dewdrop”), German Tautropfen (“dewdrop”), Danish dugdråbe (“dewdrop”), Swedish daggdroppe (“dewdrop”), Faroese døggdropi (“dewdrop”).

(baseball, slang, dated, 1800s) A slow pitch.


boulle

en-noun

boulle (usually uncountable, plural boulles)

The boulle clock ticked, with mindless vigilance.

2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:


road warrior

(cycling) A recreational cyclist who rides a racing bicycle and wears lycra.


fifty-fifty

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(sports) A challenge between two opposing players, where both have an equal chance of taking possession.

fifty-fifty grind
fifty-fifty grind#English

(skateboarding) Ellipsis of fifty-fifty grind; a rail or edge grind, using both trucks to grind along, longitudinally aligned.

fifty-fifty grind

fifty-fifty slide
fifty-fifty slide#English

(snowboarding) Ellipsis of fifty-fifty slide; a rail slide where the snowboard is longitudinally aligned with the direction of the slide, down the centerline.


bocce

bocce (countable and uncountable, plural bocces)

(sports, uncountable) A game, similar to bowls or pétanque, played on a long, narrow, dirt-covered court

The object is throw or roll the bocces as close as possible to the pallino.

2012, Victoria Rowell, Paul Tukey, Tag, Toss & Run: 40 Classic Lawn Games, →ISBN:

The side with their bocces closest to the pallino earns points.

2013 February 6, Brian Messenger, “Bocce balls are rolling”, in Eagle-Tribune:

When he first started we had to buy a smaller set of bocces because his hands were small.

2013 April 30, Paul Haigh, “Bocce star to represent Australia”, in Liverpool City Champion:

(sports, countable) One of the eight balls that the player throws in a game of bocce.


draisienne

Borrowed from French draisienne. Named after Karl Drais.

I looked to the right, where velocipedes with huge art-nouveau wheels and draisiennes with their flat, scooterlike bars evoked gentlemen in stovepipe hats, knights of progress pedaling through the Bois de Boulogne.

1989, William Weaver, transl., Foucault's Pendulum, Random House, translation of Il pendolo di Foucault by Umberto Eco, page 10:

(historical, cycling) dandy-horse, hobby horse


quatrefoil

/kætɹəˌfɔɪl/

From Old French quatrefoil, from quatre (“four”) + foil (“leaf”).

(heraldry) A stylized flower or leaf with four lobes.


tighthead

(rugby) prop who plays on the right-hand side of the front row of the scrum, such that in a scrum, their head is tightly bound between those of the opposing hooker and loosehead


inside centre

(rugby) A player who is positioned between the fly-half and the outside centre


outside centre

(rugby) A player who is positioned between the inside centre and the right wing


front row

(British, rugby) The row of players who participate in a scrum with direct contact with the opposing scrum.


groschen

From German Groschen, from Middle High German grosse, from Medieval Latin (denarius) grossus (“thick (penny)”).

[…]old women are seeking to earn a few groschen by carrying home the purchases of buyers,[…]

1884 Christmas, Mrs. Alexander [pen name; Anne French Hector], “Mrs. Vereker’s Courier Maid”, in The Gentleman’s Annual, chapter III, page 75:

(numismatics) Any of several obsolete European silver coins.


number eight

But Ireland dug out a gutsy response and applied pressure which resulted in number eight Heaslip diving over in the corner to revive home hopes.

2011 February 13, Lyle Jackson, “Ireland 22-25 France”, in BBC:

(rugby) A player in the scrum, who controls the movement of the scrum, and can pick up the ball exiting the scrum; eighthman.

vazač

rugby player who controls the movement of the scrum


marquetry

marquetry (countable and uncountable, plural marquetries)

strawen marquetry

Wearing a dress in Labour's ruby red, the shadow chancellor joins me at a circular table amid the art deco glamour of Bettys' subterranean Spindler room, which is adorned with numerous stained-wood “marquetry pictures”.

2023 October 7, Jim Pickard, “It's not government that creates jobs”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 3:

(uncountable, woodworking) A decorative technique in which veneers of wood, ivory, metal etc. are inlaid into a wooden surface to form intricate designs.


flanker

Audio (US)

From flank + -er. The verb is from the noun (sense 3).

(rugby) A player who plays in the back row of the scrum.

rváček

rugby player in the back row of the scrum

(American football) A wide receiver who lines up behind the line of scrimmage.


platy

en-adj

platy (comparative platier, superlative platiest)

platier (comparative)
platiest (superlative)

Alternative form: platé

Gules, a saltire argent within a bordure sable bezantée (sic C., but Papworth cites, p. 1069, from A., per saltire gules and sable, a saltire argent, and a bordure of the 2nd platy).

1877, The Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeologist, page 19:

[...] fretty gules besanty / here the besants are placed at the intersection of the pieces of the fretty. A similar coat, Or, fretty gules platy, is an old coat of VERDON; and Or, fretty sable platy is the canting coat of PLATT.

1892, John Woodward, George Burnett, A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign: With English and French Glossaries, page 97:

Or, a fess dancetty of two points gules masoned argent; on a chief azure a representation of Maidenhead Bridge over water barry wavy in base. 212. Argent, a fess gules between 3 astral crowns azure. 213. Sable platy, a pile barry[…]

1965, R. H. Wilmott, Discovering Heraldry:

Sable platy, two flaunches argent - Spelman (159). Gules, five lozenges conjoined in bend argent - Raleigh (160).

1983, Charles Boutell, Boutell's Heraldry, Frederick Warne Publishers:

(heraldry) Semy of plates (roundels argent).


segreant

First attested in the 1550s, initially in the spelling sergreant, of obscure origin and variable meaning: examples from the 15- and 1600s apply it not only to winged quadrupeds but also a falcon, and not exclusively to ones rampant but also some passant. The source may be French s’érigeant (“erecting itself”).

(heraldry) Rampant, with the wings elevated and addorsed (a posture of winged quadrupeds).


recrossed

M'Glashan, Sco. a long cross recrossed, gules,[…]

1817, Alexander Deuchar, British Crests: Containing the Crests and Mottos of the Families of Great Britain and Ireland, page 189:

gules, a bend argent acc. by six crosses recrossed argent

1900, John William De Forest, The DeForests of Avesnes and of New Netherland: A Huguenot Thread in American Colonial History, 1494 to the Present Time, page 245:

The arms of Poix, assumed by Sir Walter Tyrrell III., at the siege of Jerusalem, were as follows: Gules, with bend argent, together with six crosses, recrossed with small crosslets and pointed in gold, posed three and three.

1909, Edwin Holland Terrell, Further Genealogical Notes on the Tyrrell-Terrell Family of Virginia and Its English and Norman-French Progenitors, page 21:

(heraldry) Having the ends crossed, like (or as) a cross crosslet.


close-up

(photography) A photographic (or other) image in which the subject is shown at a relatively large scale, and occupies most or all of the frame.


break one's duck

en-verb

break one's duck (third-person singular simple present breaks one's duck, present participle breaking one's duck, simple past broke one's duck, past participle broken one's duck)

breaks one's duck (present singular third-person)
breaking one's duck (participle present)
broke one's duck (past)
broken one's duck (participle past)

From cricket, where duck means a score of zero.

(cricket) To score one's first run in an innings.


game sheet

(sports) A document used in sports in order to keep track of goals, penalties, assists, etc.


granny style

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(basketball) A method of shooting baskets, especially foul shots, in which the ball is thrown underhand, with both arms, from below or anterior to the pelvis.


granny shot

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MR

en-noun

MR (countable and uncountable, plural MRs)

(sports) Initialism of meeting record, the best performance at all occurrences of a particular athletic meeting.


brake shoe

(cycling) A brake lining unit in a coaster brake on a bike.


rub of the green

rub of the green (plural rubs of the green)

(golf) Any accidental deflection of the ball by an outside agency (spectator, caddie etc); the ball is played without penalty from where it comes to rest

(sports, by extension) an outside agent that affects the movement of the ball.


triple jumper

(athletics) An athlete who competes in the triple jump.


high jumper

(athletics) An athlete who competes in the high jump.


ring up

en-verb

ring up (third-person singular simple present rings up, present participle ringing up, simple past rang up, past participle rung up)

rings up (present singular third-person)
ringing up (participle present)
rang up (past)
rung up (participle past)

(baseball) To strikeout a batter and thereby send him or her back to the dugout.


burn up

burn up (third-person singular simple present burns up, present participle burning up, simple past and past participle burned up or burnt up)

burns up (present singular third-person)
burning up (participle present)
burned up (participle past)
burned up (past)
burnt up (participle past)
burnt up (past)

From burn + up. Compare Middle English upbrennynge, upbrennende (“burning up”, present participle), German Low German upbrannen (“to burn up”).

cog

(intransitive, bowling, of a ball) To use up too much energy when first bowled and to therefore not finishing strongly.


pole vaulter

Indeed, with a world record‐holder or Olympic champion in almost every race, with six milers who have broken 4 minutes, eight high jumpers who can top 7 feet and seven pole vaulters who have cleared 17 feet, there is no way guessing how many Olympic champions‐elect will be on display in the hatbox over Penn Station.

1972 January 28, “Sports of The Times”, in The New York Times:

(athletics) An athlete who competes in the pole vault.


edge banding

(woodworking) Alternative spelling of edgebanding


catch a crab

en-verb

catch a crab (third-person singular simple present catches a crab, present participle catching a crab, simple past and past participle caught a crab)

catches a crab (present singular third-person)
catching a crab (participle present)
caught a crab (participle past)
caught a crab (past)

I blast off the first few strokes with all the anger and frustration I feel towards Rachel. It works against me. I catch a crab and totally lose it. The boat swings sideways and we have to easy oar or risk slamming into the bank.

2014, Pip Harry, Head of the River, page 82:

(rowing) To strike the blade of the oar against the water when moving the oar back between power strokes.


pendent

en-adj

pendent (comparative more pendent, superlative most pendent)

more pendent (comparative)
most pendent (superlative)

From Middle English pendaunt, Anglo-Norman pendaunt, pendant, respelled to reflect Latin pendēns, pendentis, present participle of pendere (“to hang, to be suspended”). Compare pendant, which retained the spelling.

Jandrell, Sa. three buckles, the tongues pendent ar. two and a one.

1780, Joseph Edmondson, A Complete Body of Heraldry:

Az. a chev. or, betw. three acorns, pendent, Kymberlee.

1828, William Berry, Encyclopaedia Heraldica, Or Complete Dictionary of Heraldry: Dictionary of Heraldry, page 89:

JAUDRILL. Ermines, three round buckles ar. tongues pendent.

1844, John Burke, Bernard Burke, Encyclopædia of Heraldry, page 49:

page 207: de CAMPO REAL: chequy Sable and Argent on a chief Gules a crescent pendent of the field.

1981, Bruno Bernhard Heim, Armorial Bruno Bernard Heim, Colin Smythe:

(heraldry) Hanging or pointed downward; (of a crescent) with its horns pointing downward.


shirtfront

(cricket) A pitch that is easy to bat on.


green belt

From green (adjective) + belt (“band worn around the waist; thing resembling a belt, a strip or stripe”).

compound

When the club is fully developed and has a reasonable spectrum of ranks in it, the training schedule should be stable to encourage the habit of training. […] The advanced (above green belt) class meets for an additional hour, three times per week (Monday, Wednesday, and Friday).

1995, Elmar T. Schmeisser, “The University Dojo: Teaching a Traditional Martial Art in a Nontraditional Setting”, in Carol A. Wiley, editor, Martial Arts Teachers on Teaching (Io Series; 53), Berkeley, Calif.: Frog, North Atlantic Books, →ISBN, page 129:

He estimates it was around 1964 when the Japanese stylists of karate brought in the green belt to bridge the gap between white and brown.

2011, Yvonne Cruz, “Cruz Karate Studios”, in Grandmaster Freddie G. Cruz: Biography of a True Legend in the Martial Arts World, [S.l.]: Bookemon, →ISBN, page 217:

Any green belt martial artist could've done that. Because they were just ordinary goons, hired guns.

2014 October, Sharit Sinha, “The Revelation”, in Blood Rush, 3rd edition, [S.l.]: Sharit Sinha, published December 2017, →ISBN, page 36:

A belt which is green in colour worn by a person who has achieved a certain (usually intermediate) level of skill in a martial art, especially judo or karate; also, the level of skill represented by this belt.

vihreä vyö

belt which is green in colour worn by a person who has achieved a certain (usually intermediate) level of skill in a martial art; the level of skill represented by this belt

After a month I distinctly remember one of the ‘green belts’ giving me a thorough but gentle working over in one of the sparring sessions, I was impressed not just with his ability to defeat me, but with the ease with which he did it.

2012, Noel C., “What Karate Means to Me”, in Tom Hill, editor, Essays for Black Belt, Luton, Bedfordshire: Andrews UK, →ISBN, page 22:

Develop a career progression ladder for black belts and green belts.

[2012, T. M. Kubiak, “Mentoring Black Belts and Green Belts”, in The Certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt Handbook, Milwaukee, Wis.: ASQ Quality Press, →ISBN, part V (Mentoring Responsibilities), page 306:

A person who has earned the rank of green belt in a martial art.


groomer

/ˈɡɹuːmə(ɹ)/

(skiing, slang) A piste serviced by snow groomers.


nightcap

(US, sports, baseball) The final match of a sporting contest, especially the second game of a baseball doubleheader.


Olympian

From Late Latin Olympianus (“Olympic”) + English -an (suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘of or pertaining to’, or forming agent nouns). Olympianus is derived from Latin Olympia (“town in Elis, Greece, where the ancient Olympic Games were held”) + -ānus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’); and Olympia is from Ancient Greek Ὀλυμπῐ́ᾱ (Olumpíā, “Olympia”), from Ὀλῠ́μπῐος (Olúmpios, “of or pertaining to Mount Olympus; living on Mount Olympus, Olympian; (specifically) Zeus”) or Ὄλῠμπος (Ólumpos, “Mount Olympus”) (see further at etymology 1) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā, suffix forming feminine abstract nouns).
As regards noun sense 1 (“inhabitant of the city of Olympia, Washington, United States”), the city was named after the Olympic Mountains which are visible to the northwest, which in turn were named after Mount Olympus in Greece.

der

For he [Alexander the Great] was not (as his father Philip [II of Macedon]) deſirous of all kind of glorie: who like a Rhetoritian had a delight to vtter his eloquence, and ſtamped in his coines, the victories he had wonne at the Olympian games, by the ſwift running of his horſe and coaches. For when he was asked one day (becauſe he was ſwift of foot) whether he would aſſay to run for victorie at the Olympian games: I could be content, ſaid he, ſo I might run with kings.

1612, Plutarke of Chæronea [i.e., Plutarch], “The Life of Alexander the Great”, in Thomas North, transl., The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romaines, Compared together by that Grave Learned Philosopher and Historiographer Plutarke of Chæronea: […], London: […] Richard Field, →OCLC, page 675:

The Olympian Games were celebrated at the Full Moon after the Somer Solſtice, ſo the Olympian Years begin at that Seaſon.

1705, Tho[mas] Hearne, “The Gro[u]nds of Chronology”, in Ductor Historicus: Or, A Short System of Universal History, and an Introduction to the Study of It. […], 2nd edition, volume I, London: […] Tim[othy] Childe, […], →OCLC, book I (Chronology), page 22:

During his Exile he [Cimon Coalemos] obtain'd the Olympian Prize in the Quadrijugal Chariot-race, and transferr'd the Honour to Miltiades [the Elder] his Mother's Son.

1720, Herodotus, “Book VI. Erato.”, in Isaac Littlebury, transl., The History of Herodotus: Translated from the Greek, 2nd edition, volume II, London: […] A. Bell, […], →OCLC, page 126:

Q. Were Women allow'd to be preſent at thoſe Games? / A. At firſt they were ſo ſtrict in this reſpect, that any Women who croſs'd the River Alpheus while theſe Games were celebrating, were condemn'd to be tumbled down a Rock. But afterwards, Women were even ſuffer'd to perform in the Olympian Games, and they ſometimes won the Prizes.

1743, [John Lockman], “Of the Customs and Manners of the Grecians”, in The History of Greece. By Way of Question and Answer. […], London: […] R[obert] Dodsley […], and sold by M. Cooper […], →OCLC, section II (Of Publick Festivals; viz. of the Olympian, Pythian, Nemean, and Isthmian Games), page 172:

(historical) Of or relating to the ancient Olympic Games held at Olympia; Olympic.

Of or relating to the modern Olympic Games; Olympic.

олимпийски

of or relating to the ancient or modern Olympic Games


Olympian

олимпиец

sportsperson competing in the ancient or modern Olympic Games

олимпи́йка

rare; generally used to mean a sports sweatshirt with a zip

And I haue ſeene thee pauſe, and take thy breath, / When that a ring of Greekes haue ſhruped thee in, / Like an Olympian wraſtling.

c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Famous Historie of Troylus and Cresseid. […] (First Quarto), London: […] G[eorge] Eld for R[ichard] Bonian and H[enry] Walley, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:

(historical) A sportsperson competing in the ancient Olympic Games.

I will forever carry the pride and privilege of representing this amazing country on the grandest global stage. There is so much that comes with that, with being an Olympian. But now, because of Covid-19, some athletes will never get that honour. […] There will be people who were getting the timing right for 2020 who won't be in 2021. From in one year does not guarantee form in the next. That is absolutely heart-breaking. There will be athletes in the community that should have become Olympians. Because of Covid-19, they will never get that opportunity.

2020 August 28, Steve Solomon, “Covid has stripped Olympic glory from a generation of athletes – that’s heartbreaking”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-06-28:

[…] Olympians’ mental health has never been a key concern for the sports governing bodies that oversee them.

2021 July 22, Alice Park, “How Olympians are Fighting to Put Athletes’ Mental Health First”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Warner Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-07-22:

A sportsperson competing in the modern Olympic Games.


unplayable

en-adj

unplayable (comparative more unplayable, superlative most unplayable)

more unplayable (comparative)
most unplayable (superlative)

That cannot be played; that is impossible or unreasonable (too difficult, etc.) to play.

(sports, of a ball or shuttlecock) Impossible to play or to defend against.


d.

Coordinate term: d-man

(sports, informal) Abbreviation of defence/defense.


step-up

(exercise) A workout movement wherein one leg stands on an elevated surface and lifts in the concentric part the rest of the body up onto it to target – depending on angle and starting distance of the other leg and weights applied by the arms – the femoral and gluteal muscles variously.


scudetto

The race to the scudetto is on in Italy at the halfway point of the Serie A season.

2009 January 21, Jack Bell, “Juventus Putting Pressure on Inter”, in New York Times:

(soccer) The Italian Serie A Championship title.


below par

(golf) (of a score) Less than par for the hole or course (which in golf, means better than par).


herl

(fishing) an artificial fly made with this barb


finisher

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A thundering right to the head bent him back over the ropes, and then, just as I was setting myself for the finisher, I felt somebody jerking my pants leg […]

1934 June, Robert E. Howard, “General Ironfist”, in Jack Dempsey's Fight Magazine:

(boxing) The blow that ends a fight; the knock-out blow.

After suffering a broken leg in a challenge from Stoke's Ryan Shawcross in 2010, the goal allowed Ramsey to put a positive slant on this fixture and show how he is evolving into a composed finisher.

2013 September 22, Alistair Magowan, “Arsenal 3-1 Stoke City”, in BBC:

As such, when Doncic was on the court, Brunson was a secondary facilitator and more of a finisher than a creator.

2022 October 19, Andre Snellings, “Fantasy basketball: Why Jalen Brunson can be even better in New York”, in ESPN:

(sports) A player who scores points for their team.

[Eddie] Jones has used his bench as finishers and repeated last year’s ploy that helped overcome France when he brought on Ben Te’o for [George] Ford. [Dylan] Hartley and [Mike] Brown had already gone off, along with [Nathan] Hughes, whose replacement Sam Underhill was making an impact at the breakdown when he was sent to the sin-bin for a no-arms tackle on Barclay.

2018 February 24, Paul Rees, “Finn Russell masterminds historic Scotland victory over England”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 2018-04-22:

(rugby) A substitute player who plays at the end of the game.


flashbulb

When Christine Jorgensen's plane touched down carrying her home from Denmark […] 300 reporters surged forwards, shouting questions as flash bulbs popped.

2005 March 2, Leslie Feinberg, “Even McCarthy was gay baited”, in Workers World:

(historical, photography) A glass bulb that made a single bright flash for illumination during a photograph.


flashgun

(photography) An electrically powered device used to trigger a flashbulb.

(photography) Any similar unit used to generate repeatable flashes of light for photography.

閃光燈

a unit used to generate repeatable flashes of light for photography


attacking zone

(ice hockey) From one team's point of view, the area between the blue line of the other team's half of the rink and the end board behind the other team's goal.


defending zone

(ice hockey) The zone between the blue line and the end board in a team's own end of the rink. The same area is the attacking zone for the opposing team.


end board

(ice hockey) A section of the board between the corners in each end of the rink,


He did a 180 off the diving board.

(sports) An instance of spinning 180 degrees, so that one is facing in the opposite direction.


He did a 720 off the halfpipe.

(sports) The act of spinning 720 degrees in the air, doing two complete turns.


offensive zone

(ice hockey) The ice between the opposing team's blue line and their end board.


defensive zone

(ice hockey) The ice between a team's own blue line and its end board.


forkball

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From fork + ball, since it is held between the first two fingers.

(baseball) A baseball pitch, much like the sinker.


fo shizzle my nizzle

From fo shizzle + my + nizzle, rhyming variation of nigga, with the rhyming particle -izzle.

(slang, hip-hop) More emphatic and familiar form of fo shizzle; “For sure, my friend”, used to stress the following sentence.


low key

(photography) A dark area of a photograph with little contrast.


faceoff

(ice hockey) The method used to begin play in ice hockey.


quali

en-noun

quali (usually uncountable, plural qualis or qualies)

(motor racing, slang) Clipping of qualifying.


faceoff spot

(ice hockey) One of the five spots in an ice hockey rink where play may begin.


martlet

From Middle English martilet, probably a blend of martinet (“martin”; from Middle French martinet and Medieval Latin martineta) and Middle French merlet.

merlette

mythological bird in French heraldry depicted with no beak or feet

(heraldry) A depiction of a bird similar to a house martin or swallow with stylized feet.


grandsire

From Middle English graunsire; compare grand and sire.

paternal grandfather
paternal grandfather

(equestrianism) The sire of a sire, paternal grandfather


follow-through

follow-through (countable and uncountable, plural follow-throughs)

(sports) The continued action of a stroke, or of the delivery of a ball, after it has been hit or released.


take sign

(baseball) A sign from the third base coach, or whoever the batter receives signals from, telling the batter that no matter what he will not swing at the next pitch.


suicide squeeze

suicide squeeze (plural suicide squeezes)

(baseball) A play by the team at-bat where with a runner at third base, the batter puts down a sacrifice bunt with the aim of allowing the runner to score. In contrast to a safety squeeze, the runner sets off from third as soon as the pitch is made, allowing him or her to start running much earlier than on a safety squeeze.


stolen base

The catcher caught the wild pitch and threw the ball to second, just in time, preventing another stolen base.

(baseball, softball) A play where a runner on any base runs to the next base, usually while the pitcher pitches to a batter. Such a runner is liable to be put out if tagged with the ball while not in contact with any base.

when a runner is unsuccessful and is thrown out

when the runner is not credited with a stolen base because the team playing the field did not try to stop the steal


penalty kill

(ice hockey) An effort by a penalized team to nullify a penalty and opponent's power play, a length of time during the game when a penalized team has one or more players in the penalty box.


cherry-bomb

(sports, US, slang) In the four square ball game, the act of spiking the ball or slamming it down with a great force to make it hard for a person to retrieve it to stay in the game.

a cherry-bomb with even more impressive force


power play

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(ice hockey) A situation where a team has a numerical advantage on the ice due to one or more penalties given to the opposing team.

(sports) A similar situation in other ball games, such as lacrosse, indoor soccer, rugby, and cricket.

(curling) A play used to move the stones to the side of the sheet.


follow-up

It could have been much worse for City before the break, but goalkeeper Joe Hart saved Jamie Mackie's long-range shot and Helguson's headed follow-up - although the latter was offside - before Bothroyd hit the post with another header.

2011 November 5, Phil Dawkes, “QPR 2 - 3 Man City”, in BBC Sport:

(sports) A shot on goal directly following another that has been saved.

opfølgning

sports: shot on goal directly following another


nurdle

en-verb

nurdle (third-person singular simple present nurdles, present participle nurdling, simple past and past participle nurdled)

nurdles (present singular third-person)
nurdling (participle present)
nurdled (participle past)
nurdled (past)

(cricket) To score runs by gently nudging the ball into vacant areas of the field.


bordure

[ˈbo̞ɹ.d͡ʒɚ]

-ɔː(ɹ)dʒə(ɹ)

A collateral form of, and thus a doublet of border (from Middle English bordure).

(heraldry) A contrasting border around a shield.


squidgy

(Australia, fishing) A soft plastic lure.


true up

true up (third-person singular simple present trues up, present participle truing up, simple past and past participle trued up)

trues up (present singular third-person)
truing up (participle present)
trued up (participle past)
trued up (past)

(cycling) To make a wheel level, balanced or even by adjusting the spokes; to true a wheel; ideally, to make it perfectly circular in relation to the hub with no left or right bulges nor 'flat spots'.


Eskimo roll

(surfing) The act of rolling under one's surfboard to dive through a wave, when heading out from shore.


love game

(tennis) A game in which one of the two players scored no points.

joc en blanc

a game in which one player scored no points


game point

(tennis) A situation where if one of the two players wins the next point, he or she will win the game (but not the set).


portate

Latin portatus, past participle of portare (“to carry”).

a cross portate

Saint Anthony's cross
Saint Anthony's cross

(heraldry, of a cross) Borne diagonally athwart an escutcheon with the central column going from dexter chief to sinister base (a cross tilted the opposite way is portate reversed), especially as a T-shaped or Saint Anthony's cross.


selfbow

From self (“having its own or a single nature or character throughout without addition or change, unmixed; (archery) of a bow: made from a single piece of wood”, adjective) + bow.

compound

With reſpect to a bow being made round, we muſt recollect, that [Roger] Aſcham ſpeaks of a ſelf'''-bow; which, it ſeems, was made round as well as the back as in the belly: but back'd-bows have almoſt always a flat back, to prevent their caſting.

1801, T[homas] Roberts, “Of the Bow”, in The English Bowman, or Tracts on Archery; […], London: […] [F]or the author, by C. Roworth, […]; [s]old by Mr. [Thomas] Edgerton, […]; [a]lso by Mr. [Thomas] Waring, […], →OCLC, section III (Of Proving the Bow), page 141:

Many Archers use a piece of waxed cloth, which is of great utility, as it not only gives the Bow a polish, but is a preventative against damps penetrating; this precaution however, is not so much required for self Bows, as backed ones. Self Bows are made of one piece of wood only, and that is generally of yew, but the long known difficulty of procuring good English yew, has compelled Bow makers of late years, to resort to various other woods, all containing great spring, but little pliability; the deficiency of the latter is amply supplied by the addition of a slip of ash, or some other tough wood glued to them; the toughness of the one combined to the elasticity of the other, both acting in conjunction, make capital Bows, and these it is that are called back'd Bows.

1820, Thomas Waring, “Attitude in Shooting”, in A Treatise on Archery; or, The Art of Shooting with the Long Bow. […], 2nd edition, London: […] A. Seale [for Thomas Waring], →OCLC, page 21:

[A] backed bow does not exceed a self bow, except that it is thought by some to be pleasanter and easier to draw, especially in the last inch, and of quicker cast.

1831, T[homas] B[urgeland] Johnson, “BOW”, in The Sportsman’s Cyclopedia; […], London: Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, […], →OCLC, page 78:

I once made a beautiful self-bow from a large branch of yew, which was amputated, after two valuable coach-horses had been poisoned by feeding on its leaves.

1840, George Agar Hansard, “Section VIII. Of Yew Trees, Yew Bows, &c. &c.”, in The Book of Archery, London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, […], →OCLC, footnote *, page 350:

Modern bows are of two kinds, viz. self bows and backed bows. The self bow is composed of only one kind of wood; but the backed bow is composed of two kinds of wood, both the full length of the bow, carefully joined together.

1845, [Jane] Loudon, “Letter XVIII. Archery: Targets; Self Bows and Backed Bows; …”, in The Lady’s Country Companion; or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally, London: […] [Andrew Spottiswoode] for Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, […], →OCLC, book V (Country Amusements), page 366:

The self-bow is the real old Engish weapon; the one with which the many mighty deeds that rendered this country renowned in times gone by were performed; […] Of the woods for self-bows, Yew beyond all question carries off the palm; other woods have been, and still are, in use, such as lance, Cocus, Washaba, Rose, Snake, and some others; but they may be summarily dismissed with the remark, that self-bows made of these woods are all, without exception radically bad, being heavy in hand, apt to jar, comparatively dull in cast, and very liable to chrysal and break, and that no archer should use them so long as a self-yew or a good backed-bow is within his reach.

1856, Horace A[lfred] Ford, “Of the Bow”, in Archery: Its Theory and Practice, London: J. Buchanan, […]; Cheltenham, Gloucestershire: H[enry] Davies, […], →OCLC, page 14:

Bows were of several types. Most common was a selfbow (a bow made of a single piece of wood with no laminating materials) of springy wood tapering toward both ends and sometimes narrowed at the grip.

1995, Harvey Markowitz, “Bows, Arrows, and Quivers”, in American Indians (A Magill Book), volumes 1 (A–Hay), Pasadena, Calif.; Hackensack, N.J.: Salem Press, →ISBN; republished in Carole A. Barrett, Harvey J. Markowitz, editors, American Indian Culture (Magill’s Choice), volumes 1 (Acorns–Headdresses), Pasadena, Calif.; Hackensack, N.J.: Salem Press, 2004, →ISBN, page 148:

If the design of the weapon is moderate enough to be successful as an all wood selfbow then the addition of sinew and horn will probably result in a net loss of arrow performance.

2001, Hari Heath, “Wood under Stress”, in David Wescott, editor, Primitive Technology II: Ancestral Skills […], Salt Lake City, Ut.: Gibbs Smith, →ISBN, section 4 (Projectiles—Bows and Arrows), page 106, column 1:

The recurved bow design originated in antiquity when the longbow, or self[-]bow, made entirely from wood, was reinforced with animal sinew to produce adequate energy in a shorter bow suitable for mounted archers.

2005, Tom Airhart, “Personal Gear”, in Elk Hunting Guide: Skills, Gear, and Insight, Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, →ISBN, page 259:

(archery) A bow made from a single piece of wood (often referred to as a bow stave).

arc senzill

bow made from from a single piece of wood


round robin

/ˌɹaʊnd ˈɹɒbɪn/

From round (adjective) + robin. Sense 1 (“senses relating to something with a round shape, or which goes around”) is connected with the word round, while sense 2 (“senses relating to people, animals, or plants”) is connected with some English regional senses of the word robin where it is used in the names of various fish and plants which are not related to the red-breasted bird. However, apart from the alliteration, it is not clear why the two words came to be linked together in compounds. It is possible that the term was first used to refer to sense 1.13.1 (“consecrated host”) which appears to be the earliest attested sense, and then extended to other senses either having the sense of round or robin.
Alternatively, it has been suggested that the term is a corruption of French ruban rond (literally “round ribbon”), referring to the practice in 17th-century France of signing on ribbons which were then attached to petitions of grievances in a circular manner: see sense 1.1. However, this etymology does not explain the senses of the term unrelated to a signed document.

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At Tokyo's Yoyogi National Gymnasium, Japan defended well and attacked with ease, facing only moderate resistance in a 25-9, 25-19, 25-15 victory in the eight-team round robin, with two berths in next year's Paris Olympics up for grabs.

2023 September 17, “Japan’s women victorious in Olympic volleyball qualifying opener”, in The Japan Times, Tokyo: The Japan Times, Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-05-30:

Sixteen men and sixteen women will compete for their respective gold medals in the inaugural edition of Olympic breaking. Each of the competitions are a one-day tournament that begins with round-robin competitions before quarterfinal and semifinal stages that lead into the medal events.

2024 June 24, Jack McKessy, “Breakdancing is making its Olympics debut at Paris 2024. Here’s when you can watch”, in USA Today, McLean, Va.: Gannett Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-07-31:

(also attributive) Senses relating to something with a round shape, or which goes around.

(originally US, sports, often attributive) The part of a tournament in which every player or team competes against each of the others in turn.


wedeln

(skiing) A series of high-speed turns with the skis parallel.


wedeln

en-verb

wedeln (third-person singular simple present wedelns, present participle wedelning, simple past and past participle wedelned)

wedelns (present singular third-person)
wedelning (participle present)
wedelned (participle past)
wedelned (past)

(skiing, intransitive) To perform a series of high-speed turns with the skis parallel.


self-officiated

Ultimate Frisbee is a self-officiated noncontact field game, using seven players per side and requiring continuous motion, much like soccer or basketball.

(sports) officiated by players, on the "honor system", rather than by an outside observer such as a referee.


slogger

(cricket) A cricketer who attempts to score runs fast by attacking every ball that can be hit.


spray

en-noun

spray (countable and uncountable, plural sprays)

→ Esperanto: spraji

→ Turkish: sprey

From Middle Dutch sprāien, sprayen, spraeyen (“to spray, sprinkle, spread”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sprēwijaną (“to spray, sprinkle”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)per- (“to sow, scatter”).
Cognate with Middle High German spræjen, spræwen (“to squirt, spray, dust, splash, straw”), Danish dialectal språe (“to open up, burst forth”), Swedish dialectal språ (“to sprout, shoot forth, burst”), Norwegian dialectal spra, spræ (“to splash, splatter, spout, burst forth”), Dutch sproeien (“to spray, sprinkle”), German sprühen (“to spray, sparkle”).

der

(metalworking, countable) A side channel or branch of the runner of a flask, made to distribute the metal to all parts of the mold.

побе́г

дерева или кустарника

Edward H[enry] Knight
w:Edward H. Knight

(metalworking, countable) A group of castings made in the same mold and connected by sprues formed in the runner and its branches.


spray

en-verb

spray (third-person singular simple present sprays, present participle spraying, simple past and past participle sprayed)

sprays (present singular third-person)
spraying (participle present)
sprayed (participle past)
sprayed (past)

Kevin McLeod sprayed the ball across from the left flank where a raging Ainsworth met it on the volley from 25 yards out, crashing the ball into the roof of the net.

2012 February 1, Ash Rose, The QPR Miscellany, The History Press, →ISBN:

Yunus sprayed it to the wing where Ali was in some space.

2013 August 11, Jamal Orme, The Victory Boys, Kube Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 13:

(transitive, soccer) To pass (a ball), usually laterally across the field and often a long distance.

(climbing, slang, derogatory) To give unwanted advice.


SV

en-noun

SV (countable and uncountable, plural SVs)


gorged

(heraldry) With the neck collared or encircled by an object.


nebule

Barry nebule of ſix Pieces, Argent and Gules; pertained to Sir Richard Damery, a Baron in the Days of King Ed. 3.

1755, John Guillim, The British Banner Display'd, page 234:

His arms are broken off, but may be conjectured to be a crosse nebule.·

1791, Sir Egerton Brydges, The Topographer:

Barry nebule of six, or and sable, is borne by the ancient and noble family of Blount; Barry nebule of six, or and gules, by the name of Lovell; Barry nebule of six, azure and argent, by the name of Dolesby; Barry nebule of ten, argent and azure, by the name of Straiton. Paley nebule, chevronny nebule, and bendy nebule sometimes occur, but they are mostly in foreign shields of arms, and are but seldom seen.

1846, William Newton, A Display of Heraldry, page 65:

(heraldry) Alternative form of nebulé, nebuly


puddle

From Middle English podel, diminutive of Old English pudd (“ditch”), from Proto-Germanic *puddaz (compare Low German Pudel (“puddle”), Middle High German podel (“quagmire, mudhole”), Hunsrik Puttel, dialectal German Pfudel (“puddle”), German pudeln (“to splash about”)), ultimately imitative.

onomatopoeic

imitative

I had only to see the 'puddle' to know that your paddle made it.

1969, Charles Cuthbert Brown, Malay Sayings, page 88:

As the blade exits the water the puddle is very tight and dark. It is also very quiet.

2007, Rowing News, volume 14, number 5, page 36:

(rowing) The ripple left by the withdrawal of an oar from the water.


heartbreaker

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Kansas appeared in its first bowl following the 1947 season, losing a heartbreaker to Georgia Tech in the Orange Bowl. KU landed in the Bluebonnet Bowl following the 1961 season, and beat up a good Rice squad, 33-7.

2004, Mark Stallard, Tales from the Jayhawks Gridiron, Sports Publishing LLC, →ISBN, page 164:

Wyoming lost a heartbreaker 7–6. Utah's touchdown was scored on an intercepted pass, Wyoming missed an extra point and, most importantly, an official did not get downfield in time to see a punt hit a Utah player not once, but twice[…]

2006, Tom Benjey, Keep A-goin': The Life of Lone Star Dietz, Tuxedo Press, →ISBN, page 246:

In 1988 and again in 1989 the team went back to Bristol, Connecticut, for the nationals, coming in at third place one year and in second place another, losing the championship to Wisconsin-Oshkosh in a heartbreaker in eleven innings.

2009, Dieter Dubberke, Three Times Blessed, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 94:

breaks someone's heart
break someone's heart#English

(agent noun) Someone or something that breaks someone's heart, as:

(sports) A match which ends in defeat for a promising player or team.


fishfinder

(fishing) An electronic device that uses sonar to measure water depth and shows outlines of fish and bottom features on a LCD or CRT screen


factory team

(motor racing) A team that is wholly or substantially owned and run by (or on behalf of) a car manufacturer, either by an in house organization or an associated company.


spalting

en-noun

spalting (countable and uncountable, plural spaltings)

(woodworking) Any coloration of wood, either living or dead, by fungi, which is considered visually or texturally appealing. Biochemical responses by the tree are not included within the scope of spalting.


fruited

en-adj

fruited (comparative more fruited, superlative most fruited)

more fruited (comparative)
most fruited (superlative)

[…] the first gules, a chevron or, between three heads erased; the second vert, an oak tree, fruited or[…]

1813, John Lyon, The History of the Town and Port of Dover and of Dover Castle: With a Short Account of the Cinque Ports, page 138:

[…]; Or, an olive tree eradicated proper, by the name of Montolivet; Or, on a mound a pear tree fruited proper, by the name of Pyrton; Sable, an apple tree or, fruited gules, by the name of Verse, in Flanders.

1846, William Newton, Display of Heraldry, page 139:

A white horse holding in his mouth a sprig of oak. 2. The same galloping before an oak-tree fruited or (Fig. 178).

1870, Mrs. Bury Palliser, Historic Devices, Badges, and War-cries, page 270:

Azure , on a mount an apple tree fruited proper, are the armes parlantes of the Dutch APPELBOOMS, and of the Barons APFALTRER.

1892, John Woodward, George Burnett, A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign: With English and French Glossaries, page 317:

Gold a pear tree fruited gules

1910, Archaeologia Aeliana, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquities, page 163:

(heraldry) Bearing fruit or acorns, typically of a specified tincture.


domestically

en-adv

domestically (comparative more domestically, superlative most domestically)

more domestically (comparative)
most domestically (superlative)

Athletic have been showing signs of fatigue domestically and they never quite seemed to reach the same pitch of intensity that had so unsettled Manchester United and Schalke 04 in earlier rounds.

2012 May 9, Jonathan Wilson, “Europa League: Radamel Falcao's Atlético Madrid rout Athletic Bilbao”, in the Guardian:

(sports) at home, playing in one's home ground


auto racing

(motor racing) Any of various sports in which automobiles (motor cars) are raced, either around a track, on roads or across country


stacking

en-noun

stacking (countable and uncountable, plural stackings)

(photography) An image processing technique to reduce noise or add special effects.


rigadoon

From French rigaudon. Ultimate origin unknown; perhaps related to Hebrew ריקודים or Arabic رقص.

(dance) A quickstep dance for two people.


sufflue

(heraldry) A clarion-like charge on a coat of arms.


flye

[…]then there will be five sets of presses on an inclined bench, five sets of dumbbell flyes and two sets of twenty cable flyes—all designed to bulk, shape, striate and clarify the pectoralis muscles of the chest[…]

1974, Charles Gaines, George Butler, Pumping Iron: The Art and Sport of Bodybuilding, page 22:

(weightlifting) An exercise performed by moving extended arms through an arc while the elbows are kept at a fixed angle, especially those done to exercise the chest muscles.


powerlifting

For the first several years of my exclusive career in powerlifting, I couldn't bench too well.

1988, Frederick C. Hatfield, “Powersource: Ties that bind”, in Ironman, 47 (6): 21:

(sports) A strength sport, consisting of three events: the squat, the bench press, and the deadlift. The maximum weight lifted in each event is totalled for a final score.


TKO

/ˈtiː ˈkeɪ ˈəʊ/

technical knockout
technical knockout#English

(martial arts) Initialism of technical knockout.


deadlift

2008, Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xii
I never did a squat or a deadlift—the exercises I now know are best for building a bigger, stronger, more athletic-looking body—because I had access to leg-extension, leg-curl, and leg-press machines.

(weightlifting) A weight training exercise where one lifts a loaded barbell off the ground from a stabilized bent-over position.


comble

(heraldry) A band along the top part of the shield, half the height of the chief.


outpoint

en-verb

outpoint (third-person singular simple present outpoints, present participle outpointing, simple past and past participle outpointed)

outpoints (present singular third-person)
outpointing (participle present)
outpointed (participle past)
outpointed (past)

It was clear that the Queen, if she indeed proved to be the target, would be outpointed for grooming and hauteur.

2006, Clive James, North Face of Soho, Picador, published 2007, page 225:

Speaking from the Philippines, where he easily outpointed Argentine Angel Hugo Ramirez in front of a sellout crowd of almost 10,000 on Saturday night, Katsidis said he was ready to fight in front of Australian fans after an absence of two years.

2009 February 2, Bernie Pramberg, “Michael Katsidis chases return bout with Cuban great”, in Herald Sun:

(sports) To score more points than (especially, in boxing, to achieve victory by scoring more points that one's opponent).


playbook

(US, American football) A book of strategies (plays) for use in American football (and by extension other sports or disciplines).


flossing

en-noun

flossing (countable and uncountable, plural flossings)

(fishing, uncountable) The use of a weighted hook that pierces the fish's mouth from the outside.


Saxe

Seemingly a combination of influences: Middle English Saxe (“the Saxons”) (from Old English Seaxe), Middle French Saxe (“Saxony”), and German Sachsen (“Saxony”) and Sachse (“a Saxon”) itself, rewritten with x (compare regional German Saxen). The form Saxẽ (i.e., Saxen) is found in some Early Modern sources.
The surname is also partly from German Sachs, itself a variant of Sachse; a variant of Dutch Sas (literally “Saxon”), a cognate; and Middle English Saxe, a personal name from Old Norse Saxi, from sax (“one-edged sword”). All of these ultimately lead back to Proto-Germanic *sahsą (“dagger, knife”). Doublet of Sachs, Sax, Sas, and Sachse.

(photography, historical) A German albumenized paper used in photography.


Krav Maga

/kɹɑːv məˈɡɑː/

From Hebrew קרב מגע (k'ráv-magá), literally “contact combat”.

(martial arts) A hand-to-hand combat system developed by the Israel Defense Forces that consists of a wide combination of martial arts techniques along with realistic fight training.


air ball

(basketball) A thrown ball that misses the basket, and completely fails to touch the net or supporting hoop.


pro-celebrity

(sports) In which professionals and celebrities participate together


drop-in

Drop-ins can and often do happen accidentally. Sometimes you're so focussed on your take-off that you just don't see the other rider.

2004, Bill Mattos, Kayak Surfing, page 37:

(surfing) The act of dropping in; that is, taking a wave that another surfer is already riding.


dropkick

(soccer) kicking where the football is dropped and kicked as it touches the ground.

1933 April 22 Jumping Joe Savoldi publicity article
AND ON JOE'S DROP KICK THEY DROP - !

Joe was unable to return to the ring after missing a flying dropkick

1933 May 16, 10,000 FANS SEE LEWIS WIN FIFTH WRESTLING TITLE:

At no time did Savoldi attempt to employ the new attack that he calls "drop-kick." Once he offended the rules by using a flying tackle

1933 May 18, JOE SAVOLDI WINS MAT BOUT IN PHILADELPHIA:

1937 SAVOLDI'S DROP KICK
Easily the most spectacular match-winner of this season is Joe Savoldi's drop kick. It will be easily understood from this picture why "when they are kicked they stay kicked." After a man is stunned by the kick it is an easy matter for Savoldi to body press a fall.

Joe Savoldi, perhaps the originator of the dropkick, used to have a glorious crop of curls

1949, WHAT'S HAPPENED TO OLD-TIME FAVOURITES?:

2008 William Shatner Shatner On His Star Trek Signature Drop Kick 2 minutes 28 seconds Official William Shatner Page
okay, I'll just go out and my dropkick: raise the right hand, right leg, and then I had this flash of reality. Newton's law is equal force meets equal force, whatever that thing is, everything is equal, and I realize in a dropkick when you go up in the air like that, any force you push is hardly any force at all. The reality is, a dropkick has no significance whatsoever, only on the stuntman, that reels back.

(professional wrestling) a kick made to the opponent by leaping into the air and kicking with both feet before dropping to the ground.


repechage

/ˈɹɛp.ə.ʃɑːʒ/

/ˈɹɛp.ɪ.ʃɑːʒ/

/ˌɹɛp.əˈʃɑʒ/

From French repêchage, from repêcher (“to fish out, rescue”), from re- (“again”) + pêcher (“to fish”).

(sports) A heat (as in rowing or fencing) in which the best competitors who have lost in a previous round compete for a place or places yet left in the next round.

復活賽

heat for competitors who have lost in a previous round


dented

A lion rampant sable, langued and dented gules.

(heraldry) Having teeth of a specified colour.

Ermyne on a chiefe dented, Gules.

1572 November 30, John Bossewell, Workes of Armorie:

London, 116. John Farmary M. D. Dec. 1611. Ar. 5 roundels V. in saltier; a chief dented G.

1808, Sir Egerton Brydges, Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of Old English Books, with Original Disquisitions, Articles of Biography, and Other Literary Antiquities, page 257:

(especially heraldry, obsolete) Indented.


twirling

(gymnastics, uncountable) Ellipsis of baton twirling.


snookered

en-adj

snookered (comparative more snookered, superlative most snookered)

more snookered (comparative)
most snookered (superlative)

(snooker, not comparable) In a situation where the cue ball position is such that one cannot directly hit the required object ball.


aerials

From aerial (“move involving one or both feet leaving the ground”) + -s.

af

The small world of aerials is trying to provide comfort. Athletes from Switzerland, including the former Olympic freestyle skier Andreas Isoz, have been raising funds and planned to go this weekend to Mukachevo, or as close as they could get near the Ukrainian border, to hand off supplies.

2022 March 4, John Branch, “He Won an Olympic Silver for Ukraine. Now He’s Hiding in a Kyiv Garage.”, in The New York Times:


sabermetrician

You could count on one hand the number of “sabermetricians” inside of baseball, and none of them appears to have had much effect.

2003, Michael Lewis, Moneyball, Thorndike Press, →ISBN, page 164:

(US, baseball) A baseball statistician; one who studies sabermetrics.


overexposure

en-noun

overexposure (countable and uncountable, plural overexposures)

(photography) Exposure of film to light during the development process for a longer time than is required to accurately produce the image.

overbelichting

exposure of film to light for a longer time than is required


divisional

(US, sports) A playoff determining the winning team from a particular division.


syke

(heraldry) A roundel barry wavy argent and azure; a fountain.


headhunt

en-verb

headhunt (third-person singular simple present headhunts, present participle headhunting, simple past and past participle headhunted)

headhunts (present singular third-person)
headhunting (participle present)
headhunted (participle past)
headhunted (past)

There's a brawl on the field because the pitcher has been headhunting throughout the game.

(ice hockey) To use one's hockey stick to strike an opponent's head.


pola

a pola filter


overexpose

overexpose (third-person singular simple present overexposes, present participle overexposing, simple past and past participle overexposed)

overexposes (present singular third-person)
overexposing (participle present)
overexposed (participle past)
overexposed (past)

(photography) To expose (film) to light during the development process for a longer time than is required to accurately produce the image.


adumbrated

en-adj

adumbrated (comparative more adumbrated, superlative most adumbrated)

more adumbrated (comparative)
most adumbrated (superlative)

(heraldry) Depicted on a shield as an outline (having the same colour(s) as the field, but often darker) instead of a solid figure. (See "further reading" below.)


fido

An acronym of the words freaks, irregulars, defects, oddities, from the 1960s.

(numismatics) A coin that is defective, having been incorrectly minted, often prized by collectors.


overdevelop

en-verb

overdevelop (third-person singular simple present overdevelops, present participle overdeveloping, simple past and past participle overdeveloped)

overdevelops (present singular third-person)
overdeveloping (participle present)
overdeveloped (participle past)
overdeveloped (past)

(photography) To develop a photographic film for too long

túlhív

to develop a photographic film for too long


tap-dancer

(dance) Someone who performs a tap dance.


carabine

carabine (third-person singular simple present carabines, present participle carabining, simple past and past participle carabined)

carabines (present singular third-person)
carabining (participle present)
carabined (participle past)
carabined (past)

From French carabine. Doublet of carbine.

w:Webster's Dictionary#Webster's New International Dictionary 1909

(transitive, nautical or climbing) To attach via carabiner.


tapper

(baseball slang) A weakly hit ground ball.

(sports) An assistant in the sport of paraswimming who taps blind or visually impaired swimmers with a pole to indicate when they should turn around.


telephotography

(photography) Photography of distant subjects using a telephoto lens.


wiffleball

en-noun

wiffleball (countable and uncountable, plural wiffleballs)

From (onomatopoeia) whiff (“to strike, to strikeout”) + ball.
Not derived from whiffle, though both derive from same onomatopoeic sources, namely a sound of wind.

(US, sports, uncountable) A game similar to baseball, played with a lightweight bat and ball and suitable for children to play in confined areas.


pit lane

(motor racing) A lane adjacent (usually on the inner curve) to a racetrack where the competing teams' garages are situated.