Obs. Also falx. [a. OF. faulx, Fr. faux in faux du corps small of the back.] A trick in wrestling; a grip round the ‘small of the back.’
1602. Carew, Cornwall, 76 a. Many sleights and tricks appertaine hereunto [‘wrastling’], in which, a skilfull weake man wil soone get the ouerhand of one that is strong and ignorant. Such are the Trip, fore-Trip, Inturne, the Faulx, forward and backward, the Mare, and diuers other like.
1612. Drayton, Poly-olb., i. 6.
| Or by the girdles grasp’d, they practise with the hip, | |
| The forward, backward, falx, the mare, the turn, the trip. |
