Definition of Scissors hold

1. Noun. A wrestling hold in which you wrap your legs around the opponents body or head and put your feet together and squeeze.

Exact synonyms: Scissor Grip, Scissor Hold, Scissors, Scissors Grip
Generic synonyms: Wrestling Hold

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scissors Hold

scissor-tailed
scissor gait
scissor grip
scissor kick
scissor kicks
scissorbill
scissorbills
scissored
scissoring
scissorlike
scissors
scissors-shadow
scissors-tailed
scissors crossover
scissors grip
scissors hold (current term)
scissors kick
scissorsbill
scissorstail
scissorstails
scissortail
scissortailed flycatcher
scissortails
scissorwise
scissura
scissura pilorum
scissure
scissures
scita
scitamineous

Literary usage of Scissors hold

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

1. Anatomical Technology as Applied to the Domestic Cat: An Introduction to by Burt Green Wilder, Simon Henry Gage (1882)
"... any adhesions being carefully separated with the tracer or scissors. Hold the head over the 7 per cent, brine, with the ventral side down, and nip out, ..."

2. Anatomical Technology as Applied to the Domestic Cat: An Introduction to by Burt Green Wilder, Simon Henry Gage (1882)
"... any adhesions being carefully separated with the tracer or scissors. Hold the head over the 7 per cent, brine, with the ventral side down, and nip out, ..."

3. The Science and art of obstetrics by Theophilus Parvin (1895)
"... with thumb and finger of left hand to seize the neck so that the hook may be passed over it, or, using scissors, hold it until the division is made; ..."

4. Tools and Machines by Charles Barnard (1903)
"There is another and better tool for such work, called a pair of scissors. Hold the card in the left hand and the scissors in the right. ..."

5. Annual Report of the State Horticultural Society of Missouri by Missouri State Horticultural Society (1896)
"Pick in convenient baskets and, at picking place, remove all green and imperfect grapes with scissors. Hold two days before packing, if to be shipped loag ..."

6. Trade Tests in Education by Herbert Anderson Toops (1921)
"What wrestler is famous for the "scissors hold"? Ans. (Lewis, Stecher, Caddock, Roller, Demetral).. In what play does the character of Portia appear? ..."

7. Trade Tests in Education by Herbert Anderson Toops (1921)
"... is most of the world's sisal crop grown? Ans. Mexico. 42. On how many hills was Rome built? Ans. 7. 43. What wrestler is famous for the "scissors hold" ..."

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