Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In boxing, given with a horizontal swing of the arm.

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Examples

  • SHE WAS a Tewana of the Tehuantepec Isthmus, a primal woman, round-armed, deep-breasted, shapely as the dream on which Canova modeled

    The Spinner's Book of Fiction Various

  • He spent all his time, save that required for meals and the shortest necessary sleep, in a round-armed wooden chair in the wireless station of the Atlas Building.

    The Sign at Six Stewart Edward White 1909

  • New Years, now become old, or a round-armed daughter, who would wish to have him neat, were it only out of self-respect and for the ploughman sweetheart when he looks round at night.

    Essays of Travel Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

  • Errr, no, England's batsmen should have their steel-enforced toecaps at the ready to combat some round-armed yorkers, as Lasith 'the slinger' Malinga has also taken seven for 127 in the tournament.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • It's not illegal, but Malinga seems to be bowling even more round-armed than he did before his injury.

    Cricket365 2009

  • It's not illegal, but Malinga seems to be bowling even more round-armed than he did before his injury.

    Cricket365 2009

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