cross-handed

alternative crosshanded

1. not comparableDone with hands or forearms crossed over each other.

   The cross-handed grip helps in maintaining the wrist position.

   2013, Dan Joset, Boost Your Driving Range and Master Your Putting, →ISBN

2. not comparableDone by crossing the hand to the other side of the body.

   I wonder how it would be to stand right in the beginning of the fast water, at the lip of the pool, and try a cross-handed cast.

   2014, Gordon MacQuarrie, More Stories of the Old Duck Hunters, →ISBN

3. not comparableInvolving two opposing directions.

   Appreciable scattering of cross-handed radiation occurred in the middle of the band, leaving regions near the long- and short-wavelength band edges in which scattering of cross-handed radiation was negligible.

   2011, Alexis Mendez, T. F. Morse, Specialty Optical Fibers Handbook, →ISBN, page 416

4. not comparableobsoleteBack-handed.

   We believe and are thoroughly convinced that God's blessings come to his church in a cross-handed way, entirely different, in many instances, from the way we expect them.

   1900, Signs of the Times, and Doctrinal Advocate and Monitor, Volume 68

alternative crosshanded

1. not comparableWith hands or forearms crossed over each other.

   Both Arnold Palmer and Gary Player have been quoted as saying that if they could change one thing about their games, they would have putted cross-handed early in their career.

   2009, Dr. Craig L. Farnsworth, The Putting Prescription: The Doctor's Proven Method for a Better Stroke, →ISBN, pages 42–43

2. not comparableWhile crossing the hand to the other side of the body.

   Joe got them to rig him a holster so he could draw the .45 cross-handed.

   2007, James Brady, Warning of War: A Novel of the North China Marines, →ISBN, page 297

3. not comparableIn two opposing directions.

   Or he can walk cross-handed following the principle of the cross-legged walk. In this variation, he can move forward, backward, or sideways.

   1975, Hans G. Furth, Harry Wachs, Thinking Goes to School: Piaget's Theory in Practice, →ISBN, page 79

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   The merchant fishermen at the falls acted as middlemen or factors, and passed the objects of traffic, as it were, cross-handed; trading away part of the wares received from the mountain tribes to those of the rivers and plains, and vice versa: […]

   1836 October, Washington Irving, chapter X, in Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. […], volume I, Philadelphia, Pa.: [Henry Charles] Carey, [Isaac] Lea, & Blanchard, →OCLC, pages 109–110

4. not comparablehobbiesFacing forward and pushing the oars away from the body on the power stroke (rather than facing backward and pulling the oars on the power stroke).

   Just then, a sailor, who had crossed the channel, and was making rapid headway, by rowing cross-handed, emerged from behind a merchant vessel which was moored at the wharf.

   1844, Rufus Dawes, Nix's Mate: An Historical Romance of America, →ISBN

5. not comparableIdly.

   Why do we sit cross-handed and do nothing which would serve as a basis upon which to build the salvation of our people?

   1978, Israel Digest - Volume 21, page 29

6. not comparableobsoleteBack-handedly.

   ..the end has been answered, though the channel of conveyance has been in direct opposition to what I wanted or expected, like as Jacob in blessing Joseph's sons, he wittingly—ah it is wittingly indeed, we are blessed; namely, cross-handed.

   1835, The Spiritual magazine, or Saint's Treasury, Volume XI, page 305