seamer
/ˈsiːmə
/noun
1 Cricket another term for seam bowler.We picked three seamers because the wicket did assist swing bowling and there are lights here....
- Where others looked at spinners, seamers and batsmen, he saw folk heroes, comics and tragedians.
- Now the search is on for a new seamer to work alongside the pace bowlers Andrew Harris, Greg Smith and Ryan Sidebottom.
1.1A ball which deviates by bouncing on its seam.Nash's last ball was a deliberate seamer, but he made the blunder of digging it in too short....
- I couldn't see the seamers and I couldn't see the spinners, either, so I am not quite sure how that works.
2A person who seams garments.The gutsy left-arm seamer showed his skills with the bat on a track where his more illustrious team-mates were dismissed cheaply....
- The same, however, cannot be said about opting to bat in a seamer's paradise in the second Test after winning the toss.
- He sells his wicket dearly and always bowls tightly, as a No 3 seamer should.
