cover-pointn.
1. Cricket.
a. A fielder who stands behind, and a little to the bowler's side of, ‘point’, to stop and return such balls as are not fielded by the latter.
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middle wicket1772
long-stop1773
second stop1773
stop1773
long fieldsman1790
long field?1801
third man1801
outscout1805
leg1816
point1816
slip1816
backstop1819
long fielder1835
long leg1835
long field off1837
short leg1843
square leg1849
cover-point1850
long-stopper1851
middle-off1851
cover-slip1854
long off1854
left fielder1860
short square1860
mid-off1865
extra cover (point)1867
deep-fielder1870
mid-on1870
cover1897
leg trap1897
infield1898
deep field1900
slipper1903
slip fieldsman1906
midwicket1909
infieldsman1910
slip-catcher1920
infielder1927
leg slip1956
1850 ‘Bat’ Cricketer's Man. (rev. ed.) 45 A good cover-point watches the motions of the batsman.
1887 Times 5 Sept. 9/5 The smart fielding of cover-point.
b. His position in the field.
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bat's end1742
midwicket1744
middle wicket1772
long-stop1773
long field?1801
third man1801
point1816
slip1816
backstop1819
cover1836
long field on1837
short stopc1837
long on1843
middle-on1843
short leg1843
cover-point1846
square leg1849
long off1854
mid-off1865
leg slip1869
mid-on1870
cover-slip1891
box1911
gully1920
1846 W. Denison Cricket: Sketches of Players 65 In most matches he..takes ‘mid wicket’ or ‘cover point’.
1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days ii. viii. 387 Look out now at cover-point.
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2. Lacrosse. A player who stands just in front of ‘point’, with the object of preventing the ball from coming near the goal.
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