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ˈoutcurve
[out- 7.]
1. Baseball. The bending or curving of a ball outwards (i.e. away from the batter); the course of such a ball; a ball pitched so as to curve in this way.
1881N.Y. Herald 29 July 6/5 Reipslaugher,..not being used to the difficult delivery of Bond, found great difficulty in handling the in-shoots and out-curves. 1886[see incurve n.]. 1897[see inshoot]. 1910Encycl. Brit. III. 459/2 The commonest of these swerving deliveries, and the first invented, is the out-curve, the ball coming straight towards the batsman until almost within reach of his bat, when it suddenly swerves away from him towards the right. if he be right-handed. 1943Amer. Speech XVIII. 106 Various types of curve ball are the sinker.., the in-curve, the out-curve,..and the screwball.
2. gen. An outward curve or prominence.
1902Encycl. Brit. XXVIII. 622/2 It is convenient to employ a specific name for a projection of a coast-line less pronounced than a peninsula, and for an inlet less pronounced than a bay or bight; outcurve and incurve may serve the turn. 1912Galsworthy Inn of Tranquility 68 The sharp outcurve of his dark head. 1945Sun (Baltimore) 19 July 7-O/5 This designer bows to the new round-shouldered vogue, but builds hers in an ‘outcurve’, to avoid the drooping look apparent in many of the new styles. |