fourern.
/ˈfɔːrə/ Cricket.
A hit from which four runs are scored. (No longer current.)
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > [noun] > types of stroke > for specific number of runs
seven1765
four1837
single1851
five1859
sevener1862
sixer1870
fourer1875
two1881
twoer1887
thirteener1893
six1920
Dorothy Dix1979
1875 Field 8 May 458/1 Boys made a ‘fourer’.
1901 R. H. Lyttelton Out-door Games 14 The public only applaud him [sc. the batsman] when he hits a fourer.
1927 Observer 29 May 28/5 At the other end I'll make old Brown bowl full half-volleys wide of the off-stump and have an outer ring of three to save the fourers.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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