NELSON

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• NELSON (noun)
  The noun NELSON has 2 senses:

1. English admiral who defeated the French fleets of Napoleon but was mortally wounded at Trafalgar (1758-1805)

2. any of several wrestling holds in which an arm is passed under the opponent's arm from behind and the hand exerts pressure on the back of the neck

  Familiarity information: NELSON used as a noun is rare.

• NELSON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

English admiral who defeated the French fleets of Napoleon but was mortally wounded at Trafalgar (1758-1805)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Admiral Nelson; Horatio Nelson; Lord Nelson; Nelson; Viscount Nelson

Instance hypernyms:

admiral; full admiral (the supreme commander of a fleet; ranks above a vice admiral and below a fleet admiral)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of several wrestling holds in which an arm is passed under the opponent's arm from behind and the hand exerts pressure on the back of the neck

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("nelson" is a kind of...):

wrestling hold (a hold used in the sport of wrestling)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nelson"):

full nelson (a wrestling hold in which the holder puts both arms under the opponent's arms and exerts pressure on the back of the neck (illegal in amateur wrestling))

half nelson (a wrestling hold in which the holder puts an arm under the opponent's arm and exerts pressure on the back of the neck)

 Context examples 

So Hans became another factor in the problem the unexpected had given Edith Nelson to solve.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

"Where you learned that half-Nelson," Martin answered.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"They're very extreme environments," Nelson said.

(Telescopes Uncover Early Construction of Giant Galaxy, NASA)

At this very instant, dear lady, the Queen, our Queen, may be straining her eyes for the topsails of Nelson’s ships.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Elementary school students sang, Elder Nelson White provided a prayer, and the buffalo were released from a livestock trailer into a into a 48-acre space set aside for them in Kinnear.

(Northern Arapaho Tribe welcomes buffalo herd in Wyoming, United States, Wikinews)

Sometimes in his rage he would take me for one of them, and come at me, mouthing as if he were going to tear me in pieces; then, remembering me, just in time, would dive into the shop, and lie upon his bed, as I thought from the sound of his voice, yelling in a frantic way, to his own windy tune, the Death of Nelson; with an Oh! before every line, and innumerable Goroos interspersed.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

So Edith Nelson went back to the terrible cabin with its endless alternating four-hour watches.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

“Then you need no help from me,” said Nelson, with some bitterness.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"We really hadn't seen a formation process that could create things that are this dense," explained Erica Nelson of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, lead author of the study.

(Telescopes Uncover Early Construction of Giant Galaxy, NASA)

Ask him the grain output of Paraguay for 1903, or the English importation of sheetings into China for 1890, or at what weight Jimmy Britt fought Battling Nelson, or who was welter-weight champion of the United States in '68, and you'll get the correct answer with the automatic celerity of a slot-machine.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)