Definition of Sumotori

1. a sumo wrestler [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sumotori

summonest
summoneth
summoning
summons
summonsed
summonses
summonsing
summum bonum
summum genus
sumners
sumo
sumo wrestler
sumoist
sumoists
sumos
sumotori (current term)
sumotoris
sump
sump pits
sump pump
sump pumps
sumped
sumph
sumphish
sumphs
sumping
sumpit
sumpitan
sumpitans

Literary usage of Sumotori

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Fighting Man of Japan: The Training and Exercises of the Samurai by F. J. Norman (1905)
"Without going into undue details as regards the history of wrestling in Japan, it may here be as well to point out that until thirty years ago the sumotori ..."

2. The Writings of Lafcadio Hearn by Lafcadio Hearn (1922)
""She went next door, to eat some potatoes." — "How very, very strange! — how very, very strange!" 1 (Tokyo play-song) Muko no yama no sumotori-bana wa ..."

3. The Writings of Lafcadio Hearn by Lafcadio Hearn (1922)
""She went next door, to eat some potatoes." — "How very, very strange! — how very, very strange!" l (Tokyo play-iong) Mu ko no y am a no sumotori-bana wa ..."

4. The New Far East by Arthur Diósy (1904)
"With professional wrestlers it is still de rigueur; a large mag/, about the size and shape of a door-knocker, is as distinctive of the fat sumotori, ..."

5. Japanese Conversation-grammar: With Numerous Reading Lessons and Dialogues by Hermann Plaut (1905)
"... corner sumire the violet sumo wrestling sumotori a wrestler sumu to settle down, to come to reside or live sumu to be settled or finished sun (a measure ..."

6. A Japanese Miscellany by Lafcadio Hearn (1901)
""She went next door, to eat some potatoes."—"How very, very strange ! — how very, very strange I "l (Tokyo play-song.) Muko no yama no sumotori-bana wa ..."

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