or -mare, subs. (wrestling).—The throw by which an opponent is sent over the head. Introduced, says Bee, by Parkins.
1754. FOOTE, The Knights, Act I. But we don’t wrestle after your fashion; we ha’ no tripping; fath and soul! we all go upon close hugs or the FLYING-MARE.
1884. Referee, 23 March, p. 1, col. 1. In the third and last bout, Klein brought his man clean over his head—holding him by his own—with a sort of FLYING-MARE, and elicited thunders of applause.
1886. Pall Mall Gazette, 5 July, p. 4. On a Mississippi steamer he astonished a rowdy who was shocked at his unnatural objection to whisky, by performing upon him the feat known to British wrestlers as ‘the FLYING MARE.’
