What is "backhand stroke"

Usage examples of "backhand stroke".

Ilna watched Garric's arm and sword come around in a backhand stroke without a quiver or waste motion.

She swept her buckler in a backhand stroke that held them off long enough for her sword to clear the scabbard.

The sixth Muwardi fell to a heavy, driving, backhand stroke to his collar­.

But a bench was an unhandy thing with which to make a backhand stroke.

Orlando got his sword up in time to redirect a powerful backhand stroke by Hector, but his own dagger lunge failed to score before Hector swung his shield back.

Odysseus planted his feet, gripped the sword in one hand, and swung idly at the trunk in an effortless backhand stroke.

Svetz ducked under the backhand stroke as a long-barreled weapon spat fire past him.

I came through the middle of it with a backhand stroke and a cloud of severed fiber.

Then he swept his arm out in a backhand stroke, and let go the hilt.

Squire Juan's final scream was drowned in a gurgle of his own blood, Sir Ali's backhand stroke nearly decapitating him.

Then, with the last backhand stroke, I struck her from her knees, to her side, and she was lying on her side, twisted, her palms down in the white dust.

She vaulted the body, lashing out with her right-hand sword, and another priestess staggered away as the backhand stroke slashed the tendons behind her knee.