| 单词 | swerve-bowling |
| 释义 | > as lemmasswerve-bowling An act of swerving, turning aside, or deviating from a course; in Cricket and Baseball: see swerve v. 7b. Also attributive, as swerve-bowler, swerve-bowling. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > change of direction of movement > [noun] > (a) deviation from straight course blenching1398 turna1400 misdrawing?a1425 swerving1545 digression1552 sklenting1568 excursion1603 diverting1611 diversion1626 deflection1646 deflexure1656 prevarication1672 deviation1675 evagation1692 departurea1694 swerve1736 twist1798 out-throw1855 throw1858 turnaway1922 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > bowling > [noun] > manner of bowling > specific fast bowling1816 lobbing1824 bias bowling1833 windmill1867 fast-medium1890 flick1897 whip1903 swerve-bowling1930 body line1933 tweaking1949 swing bowling1953 spin-bowling1955 seam-bowling1956 pace bowling1958 nip1963 wrist-spinning1963 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > cricketer > [noun] > bowler > types of bowler slow bowler1823 fast bowler1828 bias bowler1854 round-arm1858 demon bowler1861 left-hander1864 chucker1882 lobster1889 slow1895 leg-breaker1904 speed merchant1913 leg-spinner1920 spin bowler1920 off-spinner1924 quickie1934 tweaker1935 swerve-bowler1944 pace bowler1947 seam bowler1948 spinner1951 seamer1952 wrist-spinner1957 outswinger1958 swing bowler1958 quick1960 stock bowler1968 paceman1972 leggy1979 1736 Compl. Family-piece ii. i. 232 If there be no such Swarve,..then that Dog that is nearest the Deer when he swarves..wins the Match. 1840 E. E. Napier Scenes & Sports Foreign Lands I. i. 13 I missed him with my first barrel, but from the swerve he gave after my second attempt..I was aware he was hit. 1857 C. Dickens Little Dorrit ii. xix. 481 Every swerve of the carriage and every cry of the postilion. 1867 A. L. Gordon Sea Spray 127 On! on! to the cannon's mouth they stride, With never a swerve nor a shy. 1900 A. W. Pullin Talks with Old Eng. Cricketers 125 One hears occasionally of swerving balls, but the swerve depends very much on the air. 1901 Westm. Gaz. 16 Aug. 8/2 Hirst..has a peculiar ‘knack’..of making the ball swerve in the air... Yesterday the ‘swerve’ showed itself. 1930 C. V. Grimmett Getting Wickets iii. 67 In swerve bowling, like other branches of the art, it must be the bowler's object so to regulate his swerve that the ball will hit the wicket. 1944 E. Blunden Cricket Country iii. 37 A large wrathful swerve-bowler using the wind..to the immediate..destruction of all. < as lemmas |
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