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Definition of Round-arm
1. Adverb. With an outward or horizontal swing of the arm. "He hit the ball round-arm"
2. Adjective. With the arm swung round at shoulder height. "Round-arm bowling"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Round-arm
Literary usage of Round-arm
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes (1878)
"It so happens that round-arm bowling and myself attained our majorities almost
in the same year. I have heard that it was first practised by Mr. Wills, ..."
2. Cricket by Allan Gibson Steel, Robert Henry Lyttelton, William Gilbert Grace, Richard Arthur Henry Mitchell, Frederick Gale, Andrew Lang (1898)
"The change from under-hand bowling to round-arm having been effected by slow
developments makes it probable that the style of play ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1884)
"modern round-arm bowlers bowled the faster. The fastest bowlers of the last
twenty-five years have probably been Mr. Harvey Fellowes, Jackson of Nottingham, ..."
4. Annals of Cricket: A Record of the Game Comp. from Authentic Sources, and My by Walter William Read (1896)
"Players in 1806—round-arm Bowling in 1807—Females Matched for ... Cambridge in
1827—Test Matches to Introduce or Reject round-arm Bowling—Cricket in ..."
5. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1894)
"About 1830 he married Sarah, daughter of Dr. Powell of Lenham, by whom he had
seven children. fast round-arm bowler of eminence, and in the long list of his ..."
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