underblow

underblow
A blow from beneath.

...as advancing nearer to the skipper he struck the extended rapier with a dexterous underblow and made it spin...


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  • underblow — | ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ transitive verb Etymology: under (I) + blow : to blow (as a pipe or other wind instrument) with insufficient energy to sound the fundamental tone so that only a set of feeble high overtones is heard compare overblow …   Useful english dictionary

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