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heel-palm en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. A blow in which the heel of the palm strikes an opponent.
    • ... and I smashed my hand down on the gun to my left and it roared and I felt for the man's throat and made the kill as the other man brought his gun up and fired wild and I went in very close and used a heel-palm and drove the nose bone upward into the brain as Ibrahimi screamed something and I saw the flash of a blade and blocked it.... 1992, Adam Hall, Quiller solitaire, →ISBN, page 244:
    • I blocked a punch, blocked a kick, and answered with a heel-palm to the first man's throat. 2014, Cheree Alsop, Small Town Superhero III, →ISBN:
    • In one-step number two the defender does a knife-hand block. Then he punches with his right hand. And he finishes with a left heel-palm. 1998, Keith D. Yates, Bryan Robbins, Tae Kwon Do for Kids, →ISBN, page 76:
  2. (qualifier:orthopedics) A technique for evaluating the reduction of a hip or femur by holding the patient's heels in one's palms with both legs in abduction and internal rotation, then noting the amount of external rotation of the feet when the internal rotation is released.
    • Whichever of these methods of manipulative reduction is used, a simple test for reduction, the Leadbetter heel-palm test, can be applied. 1957, William E. Kenney, Carroll B.. Larson, Orthopedics for the General Practitioner, page 219:

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heel palm alternative lexicographic
heel-palms Number=Plur lexicographic

heel-palm en · VERB

Meanings

  1. To strike with a heel-palm blow.
    • He brought his knee up into the male's groin and heel-palmed his face. 2008, Iain M. Banks, The Player Of Games: A Culture Novel, →ISBN:
    • When the guys cornered her, she screamed, "No!" as she heel-palmed the first guy. 1995, Matt Thomas, Defend Yourself!: Every Woman's Guide to Safeguarding Her Life, →ISBN:
    • He rocked back a little on his feet and tucked his chin so I heel-palmed him across the bridge of his nose with my left. 2011, Richard Farnsworth, Gift of the Bouda, →ISBN:

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heel-palms Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
heel-palming Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
heel palm alternative lexicographic
heel-palmed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
heel-palmed Tense=Past lexicographic