a. [UNDER-2.]
1. Cricket. = UNDERHAND a. 1 c, d.
1816. in Box, Cricket (1877), 33. The ball may be twisted by the usual mode of under-arm bowling.
1882. Daily Tel., 19 May. This brought on Humphreys, slow under-arm bowler.
2. Swimming. Of a stroke: Made with the arm below the level of the body. Also ellipt.
1905. Times, 10 Aug., 10/4. Burgess,… using his favourite under-arm stroke,… went off at a good pace.
1906. Westm. Gaz., 18 Aug., 9/2. After the second hour he varied his stroke for a while to the underarm.
