Crossword clues for sidearm
sidearm
- Holstered pistol, e.g
- Weapon of a sort
- Type of baseball pitch
- One way to pitch
- Like many an infielder's throw
- How Dennis Eckersley pitched
- Gun of a sort
- Pistol, possibly
- Pistol, for example
- Pistol or saber
- Like some baseball pitches ... and a hint to locating the second part of four three-part puzzle answers
- Like some baseball pitches
- Like Dennis Eckersley's pitching
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
adv. With one's arm roughly parallel to the ground. n. A personal weapon normally carried in a holster on the body of a wielder for immediate use. vb. To throw a ball with one's arm roughly parallel to the ground.
WordNet
adj. (of pitches) made with the arm moving parallel to the ground; "a sidearm pitch"
adv. in a sidearm manner; "he prefers to throw sidearm"
Wikipedia
In baseball, sidearm is a motion for throwing a ball along a low, approximately horizontal axis rather than a high, mostly vertical axis ( overhand).
Sidearm is a common way of throwing the ball in the infield, because many throws must be made hurriedly from the glove after fielding ground balls. An infielder’s quickest throw to the bases is often from just above ground level, necessitating a horizontal release of the ball.
Sidearm pitchers, also known as sidewinders, are uncommon at all levels of baseball (except in Japan, where sidearm pitchers are widely popular). Few find sidearm a natural delivery, and those who do are often discouraged by coaches who know little about sidearm mechanics, and who believe that overhand pitching affords greater velocity. This is generally true, since a high release point uses gravity to accelerate the ball, even as air resistance works to slow it. With a low sidearm release the ball is slowed threefold: by gravity (as it ascends), increased distance (because of its higher arc), and air resistance. But what the sidearm pitcher loses in velocity, he gains in ball movement and unusual release point.
Sidearm, side arm, Sidearms (as well as other variations) may refer to:
- Sidearm, a baseball pitch
- Sidearm, a disc (Frisbee) throw
- Side arm, a backup weapon
- Side Arms Hyper Dyne, a 1986 arcade game
- AGM-122 Sidearm, a missile
- Side-arm flask (Büchner flask), a type of laboratory glassware.
Usage examples of "sidearm".
His tunic was open at the throat and carelessly baggy at the beltline, around a sidearm, but his stance bespoke discipline.
Sidearm had a long, heavy rib running from its muzzle to the base of its handshield, a deflector for defense against edged or blunt weapons in hand-to-hand combat.
As Olivetti strode out of the room, the guard spun and faced them on the other side of the glass, arms crossed, a large sidearm visible on his hip.
A phaser whined shrilly, almost at his elbow, as one of the four guards drew his illegally carried sidearm and sent a bolt of disruptor-level energy crackling into Naraht's side.
He was undoubtedly the only cybercop in the country who wore as his sidearm a car-stopping .
He was undoubtedly the only cybercop in the country who wore as his sidearm a car-stopping.
Next Brantley gave him a phaser 2 sidearm, and then proceeded to give out the same weapons to the rest of the squad.
The marines regarded it, and her, with horror as she drew her sidearm, a SIG Sauer P226, and put one round of Nytrilium fragmentable hollow point into the animal.
Now, as he readied to go on his evening rounds-showing the flag, boarding boats he deemed suspicious, handing out brochures to newcomers and checking the boundaries because they were there-he wore full gear: sidearm, baton, pepper spray, cuffs and a Kevlar bulletproof vest.
He wore a well-worn uniform of deep blue that gleamed with golden buttons and bore no sidearm from his belt.
He didn't think much of the sword, but the sidearm was a dandy Model 1805 Harpers Ferry cavalryman's pistol.
The boy on the guard post was no more than eighteen, a snubnosed farm lad, still getting a kick out of the sidearm and the badge and the white-painted helmet liner.
In high school Jack Fleming had been a star pitcher, mainly sidearm, so his throws were not as disturbed by the gusts as those of Webo Drake, who had merely played backup quarterback for the junior varsity.
In a frenzy, he flew back to the ship and destroyed all the electronics with his sidearm before he passed out.
As the Boston Whaler's engine idled, she buckled on one of the standard-issue, full-sized, personal flotation devices, easing the bottom strap so the vest would fit over her sidearm and Kevlar vest.