wristwork
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]wristwork (uncountable)
- (in particular, fencing) movement of the hand without movement of the arm
- 1941 May, O. S. Nock, “The Locomotives of Sir Nigel Gresley: Part III—The "A1" Pacifics”, in Railway Magazine, pages 196–197:
- [...] in actual fact the Gresley Pacifics are not difficult to fire; the accurate wristwork needed to shoot the coal into the back corners of the grate calls for knack rather than brute force.
References
[edit]- “wristwork”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.