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Swimmer's fancy dive
Answer for the clue "Swimmer's fancy dive ", 9 letters:
jackknife
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. a large knife with one or more folding blades [syn: clasp knife ] a dive in which the diver bends to touch the ankles before straightening out v. dive into the water bending the body at the waist at a right angle, like a jackknife [also: jackknives (pl)] ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (alternative spelling of jack-knife English) 2 (context statistics English) A resampling method that applies estimators to all subsamples that each omit a single different group (possibly of a single datapoint) of the original sample to provide a sample ...
Usage examples of jackknife.
In its infancy, the Jackknife had made a name for itself by taking two newsworthy sacrifices: a young man camped out near Pinson Lake and his dog.
A stallion neighed from the stable corral, and from the ridge behind Jackknife Canyon the Emperor of Ganado answered him.
From the hill beyond Jackknife a man had watched through binoculars his every move.
The riders had entered the hills and were winding up Jackknife Canyon before either spoke.
Suddenly he raised his head as his wandering eyes sighted a slender column of smoke rising from behind the ridge beyond Jackknife Canyon.
I found a trail up above Jackknife last spring, and maybe that had something to do with it.
If he was being tricked, the worst he could fear was that they had taken this method of luring him to Jackknife while they brought the loaded burros down from the hills by some other route.
When he turned into Jackknife, he reined the Apache in and sat for a moment listening.
Shannon Burke and Baldy as they topped the summit above Jackknife from the trail that led across the basin meadow back into the hills, he knew not where.
TWENTY-SEVEN FEDERAL officers, searching the hills found the camp above Jackknife Canyon.
Ganado, and the men who accompanied them pitched their camp well up in Jackknife Canyon.
As she passed the mouth of Jackknife she glanced up the canyon toward the site of K.
The colonel rode immediately to the sleeping camp in Jackknife Canyon.
While he was in Jackknife, Eva must have ridden down Sycamore from her meeting with Crumb, passing Jackknife before Guy rode back into Sycamore.
As the Jackknife cut a black swath through the Caribou Wilderness and Lassen Volcanic National Park in northern California, Incident Basethe main camp housing supplies and command headquartersneeded units closer to the fireline.