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Definition of Half volley
1. Noun. A tennis return made by hitting the ball immediately after it bounces.
Definition of Half volley
1. Noun. (sports) A stroke, in ball sports, in which the ball is hit immediately after it bounces off the ground ¹
2. Noun. (cricket) A delivery that bounces just short of the blockhole ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Half Volley
Literary usage of Half volley
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Methods and Players of Modern Lawn Tennis by Jahial Parmly Paret (1915)
"Primarily, I consider the half-volley under all circumstances to be an error.
One simply should not play the stroke, and there seems little excuse for being ..."
2. Methods and Players of Modern Lawn Tennis by Jahial Parmly Paret (1922)
"Primarily, I consider the half-volley under all circumstances to be an error ...
It is quite common to half-volley in England, but the use of the stroke has ..."
3. Tennis by John Moyer Heathcote, Edward Oliver Pleydell-Bouverie, Arthur Campbell Ainger (1890)
"The half-volley should be the last resource of a player, for except by accident,
... 18, 19, and 20 illustrate the fore-hand and back-hand half-volley. ..."
4. Modern Tennis by P. A. Vaile (1917)
"THE HALF-VOLLEY I AM always amused at the half-contemptuous short shrift this
beautiful and useful ... To a great extent this is so with the half-volley. ..."
5. The Art of Lawn Tennis by William Tatem Tilden (1922)
"CHAPTER V CHOP, half volley, AND COURT POSITION I AM called at times a chop-stroke
player. I seldom chop. My stroke is a slice. ..."
6. The Complete Lawn Tennis Player by Arthur Wallis Myers (1908)
"... volleying—General principles of defence against the volleyer—The half-volley
THE volley, more than any other stroke, is characteristic of lawn tennis. ..."
7. First Steps to Lawn Tennis by Alfred Ernest Beamish (1922)
"HALF-VOLLEY The half-volley is a stroke which no player should be encouraged to
attempt until his footwork is perfectly sound and his method of playing the ..."
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