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Definition of Flying mare
1. Noun. A wrestling maneuver.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flying Mare
Literary usage of Flying mare
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Devonshire Characters and Strange Events by Sabine Baring-Gould (1908)
"Besides the flying mare, there was the Cross-buttock fall in shoulder play, the
Back-heave, and others. In the leg play there were the Fore-lock, ..."
2. Devonshire Characters and Strange Events by Sabine Baring-Gould (1908)
"Besides the flying mare, there was the Cross-buttock fall in shoulder play, the
Back-heave, and others. In the leg play there were the Fore-lock, ..."
3. Athletes All: Training, Organization, and Play by Walter Camp (1919)
"Strangle hold and flying mare. 4. Waist hold and flying mare. 5. Double wrist lock.
6. Jiu-jitsu leg break. 7. Knife protection. 8. Breaking arm in clinch. ..."
4. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"... in Hazlitt's Dodsley, i. 57. mare, a term in wrestling; a particular kind of
grip. Drayton, Pol. i. 244. Also called the flying mare; ..."
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