单词 | single-wicket |
释义 | single-wicketn. A form of cricket in which there is only one wicket and consequently only one batter at a time. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > [noun] > forms of cricket single-wicket1735 single-hand cricket1761 double wicket1778 county cricket1855 snob1888 stump cricket1888 tip-and-run1891 stump1903 French cricket1907 Twenty202002 1735 General Evening Post 7 Aug. A match at single Wicket is to be play'd on Kennington Common, three against four, all of the London Club. 1744 ‘J. Love’ Cricket ii. 16 Scarce any youth wou'd dare At single Wicket, try the doubtful War. 1833 J. Nyren Young Cricketer's Tutor 49 The parties in a match at single wicket vary in number from one to six on a side. 1887 J. Ashby-Sterry Lazy Minstrel (1892) 55 She'll vanquish any boy her size At games of single-wicket! Compounds General attributive. ΚΠ 1771 Morning Chron. 3 Sept. Yesterday afternoon a single-wicket match at cricket was begun playing in the green adjoining to Kennington common. 1803 Laws of Cricket 9 In single-wicket matches, if the striker moves out of his ground to strike the ball, he shall be allowed no notch. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1735 |
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