1) Backhanded 2) Certain squash shot 3) Certain tennis stroke 4) Djokovic stroke 5) Exclusively Anglo word 6) Exclusively Saxon word 7) Hit a tennis ball backhand 8) Kind of tennis stroke 9) Marvel Comic superhero 10) Tennis shot 11) Tennis stroke 12) Word of purely Anglo origin 13) Word with Anglo-Saxon origins
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1) Backhanded 2) Slap 3) Written
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The backhand is a tennis shot in which one swings the racquet around one`s body with the back of the hand preceding the palm. Except in the phrase backhand volley, the term refers to a groundstroke (that is, one in which the ball has bounced before it is struck). It contrasts with the other kind of groundstroke, the forehand. The term is also use....
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Stroke in which the ball is hit with the back of the racquet hand facing the ball at the moment of contact. A backhand is often hit by a right-handed player when the ball is on the left side of the court, and vice versa.
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• (n.) A kind of handwriting in which the downward slope of the letters is from left to right. • (a.) Sloping from left to right; -- said of handwriting. • (a.) Backhanded; indirect; oblique.
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a way to swing the tennis racquet where the player hits the ball with a swing that comes across the body.
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A simple molding sometimes used around the outer edge of plain rectangular casing as a decorative feature.
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The puck is carried on the stick during stick handling on either the forehand or backhand side. The 'backhand' side of the stick is the side, which is on the outside of the stick curve.
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A shot or pass made from the side of the body opposite the stick hand.
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Back'hand` adjective 1. Sloping from left to right; -- said of handwriting.
2. Backhanded; indirect; oblique. [ R.]
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Back'hand` noun [
Back , adverb +
hand .] A kind of handwriting in which the downward slope of the letters is from left to right.
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hitting the ball with the back of the racquet hand facing the ball at the moment of contact.
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[
adj] - (of handwriting) having the letters slanting from left down to right 2. [n] - a return made with the back of the hand facing the direction of the stroke 3. [v] - hit a tennis ball backhand
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When, for the right-handed player, the bowl is delivered so that the curve of the bowl is from left to right as it moves towards its objective.
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left-slanting adjective (of handwriting) having the letters slanting from left down to right
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The act of shooting or passing from behind one's back.
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To hit the ball across your body. across the left of your body if you are right handed, and across the right of your body if left handed.
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For right handed players a backhand delivery will curve from left to right towards its objective. The word is also applied to the left hand side of the rink as seen by a right handed player standing on the mat and facing up the green. For left handed players, the opposite of both these meanings will apply.
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