单词 | to break back |
释义 | > as lemmasto break back b. In Cricket. A ball bowled is said to break when it changes its course after it has pitched: the bowler causes this by his delivery. It is said to break back when it breaks in from the off, to break in, when it breaks from the leg side. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > bowling > bowl [verb (intransitive)] > motion of ball to make haste?a1475 twist?1801 cut1816 shoot1816 curl1833 hang1838 work1838 break1847 spin1851 turn1851 bump1856 bite1867 pop1871 swerve1894 to kick up1895 nip1899 swing1900 google1907 move1938 seam1960 to play (hit, etc.) across the line1961 1847 W. Denison Cricketer's Compan. 1846 p. xix The tendency of his bowling is to make the ball break back from the ‘off’, to the ‘leg’. 1866 ‘Capt. R. Crawley’ Cricket 36 A..ball breaking in from the leg-side. 1882 Daily Tel. 17 May Clean bowled by a trimmer from Barnes, the ball apparently breaking back. to break back b. To make a dash; to set off at a run. So to break back: to set off running in a reverse direction. U.S., Australian, and New Zealand. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > going swiftly on foot > go swiftly on foot [verb (intransitive)] > run > start running to take head1674 to take off1815 break1834 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > backward movement > move backwards [verb (intransitive)] > turn back or reverse course turnc1275 to turn aboutc1330 repeata1382 to turn againc1384 to turn backc1425 re-turn1483 resore1486 to turn the backc1540 to turn round1560 to set back1803 resile1887 to break back1933 1834 D. Crockett Narr. Life ii. 11 He gathered about a two year old hickory, and broke after me. 1834 D. Crockett Narr. Life xiv. 96 When my lead dog..raised his yell, all the rest broke to him. 1835 A. B. Longstreet Georgia Scenes 125 The way she [sc. a horse] now broke for Springfield ‘is nothing to nobody’. 1883 ‘M. Twain’ Life on Mississippi xxviii. 300 If your boat got away from you, on a black night, and broke for the woods, it was an anxious time with you. 1889 A. Reischek Story of Wonderful Dog vi. 34 If the sheep broke he ordered a second dog to assist. 1892 Congress. Rec. Jan. 655/2 When a man is working for wages in the hot harvest field there is nothing more delightful to him than a little fall of rain which will drive him in. So these harvesters broke for the barn. 1907 S. E. White Arizona Nights (U.K. ed.) v. 98 The cattle would attempt to ‘break’ past the end and up the valley. 1933 E. Jones Autobiogr. Early Settler xii. 59 If a mob [of sheep]..broke back,..the rest of us would have to wait while the shepherd on whose beat the sheep had broken back, went for them. 1946 F. D. Davison Dusty ix. 96 With the dogs so far forward, the rearmost sheep..had a chance to break back. < as lemmas |
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