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What is a cross-buttock?

What is a cross-buttock? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (wrestling) A throw in which the wrestler turns his left side to his opponent, places his left leg across both legs of his opponent, and pulls him forward over his hip.
  2. (by extension) An unexpected defeat or repulse.
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Examples
Hiram treated Sir Hans to what is technically known as a cross-buttock.
I mind me when there was scarce a man in Cummerlan' could give me the cross-buttock.
This he soon did, catching Frank for the cross-buttock throw.
He also gave him some hints in wrestling, and taught him the throw called the cross-buttock.
The last time you wrestled a fall with little Tremaine, he threw you easily with a cross-buttock, and he is but a ten-stone man.
He'd given the little waistrel the cross-buttock, and felled him on his head.

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