deathlock

A certain wrestling move that traps the opponent's leg.

Synonym of death grip.

When close to the whale, in the very deathlock of the fight, he handled his unpitying lance coolly and offhandedly, as a whistling tinker his hammer.

In a word, luck — that's the word — shortly threw in Paul's way the great action of his life : the most extraordinary of all naval engagements ; the unparalleled deathlock with the Serapis.

Synonym of death grip.

The struggle of Europe, coming, as well as past, is a final struggle of opposite principles; it is the deathlock between self-government and slavery.

He wrote about us as if we were all Prometheuses in noble deathlock with the forces of repression in a battle for the soul of man.

Synonym of death grip.

"Don't believe the fellow who tells you to hold your shotgun in a deathlock-tight grip — so that it won't kick you.

Slocum eased the hammer back down as Harding twitched one last time and his eyes remained fixed in a deathlock.

Synonym of death grip.

But so, it seems, is the problem. The furor instigated by the war in Vietnam was projected into fraternity bull sessions and Ballantine coffee breaks. The trouble was that nobody, not even Rusk or Zinn, had a deathlock on accurate information.

The colonial links, broken by the spate of independence movements of the recent past, have been once again reestablished-albeit on a firmer footing-with the First World enjoying a deathlock on the fragile economies of the Third World.