quarter nelson

noun

: a wrestling hold gained when one wrestler kneeling beside a prone opponent places his far hand on the opponent's head and passes his near arm under the opponent's adjacent arm and grasps the wrist of his own far arm compare full nelson, half nelson, three-quarter nelson

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