try-off
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[edit]Noun
[edit]- (sports, rugby) A team event.
- 2016, Tony Johnson, Lynn McConnell, Behind the Silver Fern: Playing Rugby for New Zealand:
- It had nothing to do with their defensive pattern or any strategy it was about backing your instincts, and for Ma'a to finish the try off like that was pretty special.
- (sports, athletics) An elimination round between competitors who are tied; especially one that takes a different form than previous steps of the competition.
- 1910, Aeronautics: The American Magazine of Aerial Locomotion, page 157:
- On the try-off Watkins made 168 ft., the longest flight for the day.
- 1922, A Review of the International Live Stock Exposition, page 114:
- In the try-off for the grand championship, the Kansas Hereford yearlings were granted the royal purple.
- 1938, Curtain Call - Volumes 10-11, page 14:
- As an example of the best kind of spirit which can exist among competing teams and the pleasantest kind of atmosphere which can be created in one of these try-offs, we take off our hat to the W.O.D.L. Festival and to its winning team.
- 1948, “The Rheingold Maidens”, in Sales Management, volume 60, page 8:
- It's logical that 2,000 models every year fight, scratch and claw their way up to the try-off elimination when it comes time to choose the new Miss Rheingold.
- 1975, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services, Fiscal Year 1976 and July-September 1976 Transition Period Authorization for Military Procurement, Research and Development, and Active Duty, Selected Reserve, and Civilian Personnel Strengths:
- In this case—and again as an advanced development feasibility program—at the present time TI and the Martin Co. are under contract for a competitive tryoff along with Dahlgre as an in-house laboratory.
- (foundry work, metallurgy) A test for clearance, bearings, and metal thickness of a mold.
- 1958, Foundry - Volume 86, Issues 7-12, page 50:
- Using corn flour for a tryoff, set the cores in the drag straight and level.