Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In cricket, swinging the arm round more or less horizontally, or done with the arm so used: as, a round-arm bowler; round-arm bowling.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Cricket) Applied to the method delivering the ball in bowling, by swinging the arm horizontally.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb with an outward or horizontal swing of the arm
  • adjective with the arm swung round at shoulder height

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Examples

  • Mr. Trumble, I may add, bowls slow round-arm, with a high delivery.

    Archive 2009-01-01 2009

  • Pont's plan was to remould Sharma's javelin hurl into a biomechanically perfect round-arm sling, in the process creating a fast-bowling Frankenstein's monster.

    Why Samit Patel's cricket skill set carries so much weight | Barney Ronay 2011

  • Pont's plan was to remould Sharma's javelin hurl into a biomechanically perfect round-arm sling, in the process creating a fast-bowling Frankenstein's monster.

    Why Samit Patel's cricket skill set carries so much weight | Barney Ronay 2011

  • Yardy responds by bowling a wild round-arm thing at 65mph.

    England v Pakistan – as it happened! 2010

  • Even while the German wench was recovering her breath afterwards and ringing for refreshments, I was limbering up on the rug, trying out my old round-arm swing; I even got some of her sisters in to throw oranges to me for catching practice, and you never saw anything jollier than those painted dollymops scampering about in their corsets, shying fruit.

    Flashman's Lady Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1977

  • It was in the 'thirties, you see, that round-arm bowling came into its own, and fellows like Mynn got their hands up shoulder-high.

    Flashman's Lady Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1977

  • What the hell did you do that for? spluttered Duff and swung a round-arm punch at Sean's head.

    When the Lion Feeds Smith, Wilbur 1964

  • A ball may be thrown under-hand, round-arm, or over-hand.

    Base-Ball How to Become a Player John M. Ward

  • [80] Afterwards, as George Knight, a well-known Kent cricketer, and one of the principal agents in the introduction of round-arm bowling.

    Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh

  • Then came the Germantown Club, of native American boys, organized in 1855, whose highest ambition, for many years, was to play the Philadelphia Club, "barring Tom Senior," then the only fast round-arm bowler in the country.

    Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 Various

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