daisy-cuttern.
1. A horse that in trotting lifts its feet only very slightly from the ground.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by speed or gait > [noun] > type(s) of gait > trot > that trots > in particular way
daisy-cutter1791
clickera1888
1791 ‘G. Gambado’ Ann. Horsemanship xvi. 67 I luckily pick'd up a Daisey-cutter, by his throwing me down on the smoothest part of the grass.
1831 W. Youatt Horse iv. 30 The careless daisy-cutter, however pleasant on the turf, should..be avoided.
1867 C. Reade Griffith Gaunt (1889) 5 Daisy-cutters were few in those days.
2. Cricket and Baseball. A ball so bowled or batted as to skim along the surface of the ground.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > bowling > [noun] > a ball bowled > types of delivery or ball
full toss1826
long hop1830
twister1832
bail ball1833
bailer1833
grubber1837
slow ball1838
wide1838
ground ball1839
shooter1843
slower ball1846
twiddler1847
creeper1848
lob1851
sneak1851
sneaker1851
slow1854
bumper1855
teaser1856
daisy-cutter1857
popper1857
yorker1861
sharpshooter1863
headball1866
screwball1866
underhand1866
skimmerc1868
grub1870
ramrod1870
raymonder1870
round-armer1871
grass cutter1876
short pitch1877
leg break1878
lob ball1880
off-break1883
donkey-drop1888
tice1888
fast break1889
leg-breaker1892
kicker1894
spinner1895
wrong 'un1897
googly1903
fizzer1904
dolly1906
short ball1911
wrong 'un1911
bosie1912
bouncer1913
flyer1913
percher1913
finger-spinner1920
inswinger1920
outswinger1920
swinger1920
off-spinner1924
away swinger1925
Chinaman1929
overspinner1930
tweaker1938
riser1944
leg-cutter1949
seamer1952
leggy1954
off-cutter1955
squatter1955
flipper1959
lifter1959
cutter1960
beamer1961
loosener1962
doosra1999
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > [noun] > motion of ball > types of ball by motion
grounder1849
daisy-cutter1889
rainbow1891
poached egg1893
screamer1896
scorcher1900
swerver1902
slam1931
thunderbolt1959
1857 Bell's Life in London 1 Nov. 7/1 The umpires called play, Grange being again on the defensive to the under-hand ‘daisy cutters’ of Sadler.
1889 ‘M. Twain’ Connecticut Yankee xlii. 534 I've seen him catch a daisy-cutter in his teeth.
1891 J. S. Farmer Slang II. 248/2 Daisy-cutter, a ball which travels more than half the ‘pitch’ along the ground without rising; a ‘sneak’.
1963 Times 13 June 13/3 The ball that kept low had to be a daisy-cutter although a first-class cricket pitch has surely been sufficiently mown to lose all likeness to a flowery meadow.
Derivatives
ˈdaisy-cutting n. and adj.
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1826 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 461 Nimble daisy-cutting nags.
1837 T. Hook Jack Brag I. i. 10 None of your bowling-green, daisy-cutting work for us.
1875 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports (ed. 12) ii. ii. i. §3. 502 The..low daisy-cutting form which suits the smooth turf of our race-courses.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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