crosshanded

Adjective

cross-handed (not comparable)

1. Done 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. Done 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. Involving 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. (obsolete) Back-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

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