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Touch-down

- (R.) To settle the ball upon the ground between the goal-line and the dead ballline. If this is done by one of the attacking side, it is usually called a run-in, and results in a try (q.v.), and the term "touch-down" is applied to settling of the ball by a defender.

Touch in goal.- [See RULE 2 (R.).] Touch judge. - [See LINESMAN.] Try.-(R.) A try is obtained when one of the attacking side grounds the ball over his opponents' goal-line.

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