I mind me when there was scarce a man in Cummerlan' could give me the cross-buttock.
Hiram treated Sir Hans to what is technically known as a cross-buttock.
This he soon did, catching Frank for the cross-buttock throw.
He'd given the little waistrel the cross-buttock, and felled him on his head.
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.
This was done quickly and scientifically, and it convinced Hodge that Bascomb could not work the cross-buttock on Merriwell.
Often and often do his bony fingers almost clutch our throat, or his foot is put out to give us a cross-buttock.
cross-buttock, an unexpected fling down or repulse; from a peculiar throw practised by wrestlers.
He also gave him some hints in wrestling, and taught him the throw called the cross-buttock.