Word: hanging
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Rows short. Doesn't get arms away quick enough. Is inclined to hang at full reach...
Stroke. Apt to hang a little at full reach. Lacks snap...
...soap, and other paraphernalia necessary for gymnasium work, which some poor individual seems to be continually suffering. I am one of the several miserable wretches who, thinking that the crossbars above the lockers in the lower part of the building are especially intended as the proper place wheron to hang towels, had the misfortune to hang mine there. I had the use of it for about three days, when it mysteriously disappeared. Thinking that some one had taken it by mistake, and that I should soon get it again, I brought another one the next day, and two days later...
Stroke. - Apt to hang...
...whole the crew are fairly well together, but are very rough in their blade work. Especial care must be taken not to rush forward on the recover; not to hang and to make the stroke smooth and long...