on-pressing

English

Adjective

on-pressing (not comparable)

  1. Of a group, crowd, army, etc., pressing forwards.
    • 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 62:
      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.
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