on-pressing

adj

on-pressing

adj

1

Of a group, crowd, army, etc., pressing forwards.

At the threshold he paused for an instant, and, lifting the struggling Arab above his head, hurled him, as though from a catapult, full in the faces of his on-pressing fellows.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 62:

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