Moreover, defenders may drop out of trick-play or may play with open cards.

The attackers reached the walls, and defenders dropped stones and pushed over scaling ladders, dealing out death to those below.

The top defender then drops back to the free throw line where the defender now guarding the ball previously had been.

The defender originally playing below the elbow then drops to front the offensive post player.

Now all eight defenders had dropped their bows.

They were not too close, however, because the defenders were dropping rocks.

Cluny's archers caused numerous casualties, forcing the defenders to drop below the parapet.

The defenders couldn't have dropped and died much faster if they'd been machine-gunned.

From here any defender could drop rocks through slots in the floor on to any attackers trying to gain access through the entrance below.

But both defenders suddenly dropped back, forcing Johnson to double-clutch, to improvise, which his bulked-up body wasn't prepared to do.