| 单词 | carpet drive |
| 释义 | > as lemmascarpet drive b. spec. in Cricket, the surface of the field, the ground. Also attributive, as carpet drive. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > cricket ground > [noun] > surface of ground carpet1882 the floor1903 1882 Cricket 22 June 93/3 His hits..are never high; on the contrary they are mostly, to use the slang of the cricket field, ‘on the carpet’. 1896 Westm. Gaz. 23 July 7/2 A grand carpet drive to the off-boundary. 1899 J. C. Snaith Willow the King v. 74 It flew like a streak to mid-off all along the carpet. 1908 W. E. W. Collins Leaves from Old Country Cricketer's Diary xiv. 233 Leaving us in a parlous bad condition by putting catch after catch..upon the carpet. 1927 M. A. Noble Those ‘Ashes’ 201 Bowley tried a carpet drive through the covers. 1950 W. Hammond Cricketers' School x. 98 The batsman's art..is to learn how to turn the ball..so that..it shall stay ‘on the carpet’. < as lemmas |
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