Definition of Round-arm

1. Adjective. With the arm swung round at shoulder height. "Round-arm bowling"

Category relationships: Cricket
Similar to: Overarm, Overhand, Overhanded

2. Adverb. With an outward or horizontal swing of the arm. "He hit the ball round-arm"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Round-arm

rouls
rouly-pouly
roum
rouming
roumings
roums
roun
roun'
rounce
rounces
rounceval
rouncevals
rouncies
rouncy
round-arm (current term)
round-backed
round-bottom
round-bottom flask
round-bottomed
round-bottomed flask
round-bottomed flasks
round-eyed
round-faced
round-headed leek
round-heeled
round-leaved
round-leaved rein orchid
round-off
round-robin

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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