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half-nelson

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half-nelson
n
(Individual Sports & Recreations / Wrestling) a wrestling hold in which a wrestler places an arm under one of his opponent's arms from behind and exerts pressure with his palm on the back of his opponent's neck Compare full nelson
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half-nelson [ˌhɑːfˈnɛlsn] n (Wrestling) → mezza elson f inv
half-nelson [ˌhɑːfˈnɛlsn] n (Wrestling) → mezza elson f inv


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It was the half-Nelson of modern wrestling which the untaught ape-man had stumbled upon, but superior reason showed him in an instant the value of the thing he had discovered.
I remember I succeeded in getting on him what in my college days I learned was called a half-Nelson.
Where you learned that half-Nelson," Martin answered.
 
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