entrar

es-verb

entrar (first-person singular present entro, first-person singular preterite entré, past participle entrado)

entro (first-person present singular)
entré (first-person preterite singular)
entrado (participle past)
entrar (infinitive)
entrando (gerund)
entrado (masculine participle past singular)
entrada (feminine participle past singular)
entrados (masculine participle past plural)
entradas (feminine participle past plural)
entro (first-person indicative present singular)
entras (indicative informal present second-person singular)
entrás (indicative informal present second-person singular vos-form)
entra (indicative present singular third-person)
entramos (first-person indicative plural present)
entráis (indicative plural present second-person)
entran (indicative plural present third-person)
entraba (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
entrabas (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
entraba (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
entrábamos (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
entrabais (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
entraban (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
entré (first-person indicative preterite singular)
entraste (indicative preterite second-person singular)
entró (indicative preterite singular third-person)
entramos (first-person indicative plural preterite)
entrasteis (indicative plural preterite second-person)
entraron (indicative plural preterite third-person)
entraré (first-person future indicative singular)
entrarás (future indicative second-person singular)
entrará (future indicative singular third-person)
entraremos (first-person future indicative plural)
entraréis (future indicative plural second-person)
entrarán (future indicative plural third-person)
entraría (conditional first-person indicative singular)
entrarías (conditional indicative second-person singular)
entraría (conditional indicative singular third-person)
entraríamos (conditional first-person indicative plural)
entraríais (conditional indicative plural second-person)
entrarían (conditional indicative plural third-person)
entre (first-person present singular subjunctive)
entres (informal present second-person singular subjunctive)
entrés (informal present second-person singular subjunctive vos-form)
entre (present singular subjunctive third-person)
entremos (first-person plural present subjunctive)
entréis (plural present second-person subjunctive)
entren (plural present subjunctive third-person)
entrara (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
entraras (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
entrara (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
entráramos (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
entrarais (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
entraran (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
entrase (first-person imperfect imperfect-se singular subjunctive)
entrases (imperfect imperfect-se second-person singular subjunctive)
entrase (imperfect imperfect-se singular subjunctive third-person)
entrásemos (first-person imperfect imperfect-se plural subjunctive)
entraseis (imperfect imperfect-se plural second-person subjunctive)
entrasen (imperfect imperfect-se plural subjunctive third-person)
entrare (first-person future singular subjunctive)
entrares (future second-person singular subjunctive)
entrare (future singular subjunctive third-person)
entráremos (first-person future plural subjunctive)
entrareis (future plural second-person subjunctive)
entraren (future plural subjunctive third-person)
entra (imperative informal second-person singular)
entrá (imperative informal second-person singular vos-form)
entre (formal imperative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
entre (imperative singular third-person)
entremos (first-person imperative plural)
entrad (imperative plural second-person)
entren (formal imperative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
entren (imperative plural third-person)
entres (imperative negative second-person singular)
entre (formal imperative negative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
entre (imperative negative singular third-person)
entremos (first-person imperative negative plural)
entréis (imperative negative plural second-person)
entren (formal imperative negative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
entren (imperative negative plural third-person)
entrarme (combined-form dative infinitive object-first-person object-singular)
entrarte (combined-form dative infinitive object-second-person object-singular)
entrarle (combined-form dative infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
entrarse (combined-form dative infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
entrarnos (combined-form dative infinitive object-first-person object-plural)
entraros (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-second-person)
entrarles (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
entrarse (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
entrarme (accusative combined-form infinitive object-first-person object-singular)
entrarte (accusative combined-form infinitive object-second-person object-singular)
entrarlo (accusative combined-form infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
entrarla (accusative combined-form infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
entrarse (accusative combined-form infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
entrarnos (accusative combined-form infinitive object-first-person object-plural)
entraros (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-second-person)
entrarlos (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
entrarlas (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
entrarse (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
entrándome (combined-form dative gerund object-first-person object-singular)
entrándote (combined-form dative gerund object-second-person object-singular)
entrándole (combined-form dative gerund object-singular object-third-person)
entrándose (combined-form dative gerund object-singular object-third-person)
entrándonos (combined-form dative gerund object-first-person object-plural)
entrándoos (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-second-person)
entrándoles (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-third-person)
entrándose (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-third-person)
entrándome (accusative combined-form gerund object-first-person object-singular)
entrándote (accusative combined-form gerund object-second-person object-singular)
entrándolo (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
entrándola (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
entrándose (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
entrándonos (accusative combined-form gerund object-first-person object-plural)
entrándoos (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-second-person)
entrándolos (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
entrándolas (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
entrándose (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
éntrame (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
éntrate (combined-form dative imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
éntrale (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
éntranos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-tú)
éntrales (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
éntrame (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
éntrate (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
éntralo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
éntrala (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
éntranos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-tú)
éntralos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
éntralas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
entrame (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
entrate (combined-form dative imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
entrale (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
entranos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-vos)
entrales (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
entrame (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
entrate (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
entralo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
entrala (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
entranos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-vos)
entralos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
entralas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
éntreme (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-singular second-person singular)
éntrele (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
éntrese (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
éntrenos (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-plural second-person singular)
éntreles (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
éntreme (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-singular second-person singular)
éntrelo (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
éntrela (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
éntrese (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
éntrenos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-plural second-person singular)
éntrelos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
éntrelas (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
entrémoste (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-second-person object-singular plural)
entrémosle (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
entrémonos (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-first-person object-plural plural)
entrémoos (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-plural object-second-person plural)
entrémosles (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
entrémoste (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-second-person object-singular plural)
entrémoslo (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
entrémosla (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
entrémonos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-first-person object-plural plural)
entrémoos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-second-person plural)
entrémoslos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
entrémoslas (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
entradme (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
entradle (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
entradnos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
entraos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-second-person plural second-person)
entradles (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
entradme (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
entradlo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
entradla (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
entradnos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
entraos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-second-person plural second-person)
entradlos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
entradlas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
éntrenme (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
éntrenle (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
éntrennos (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
éntrenles (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
éntrense (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
éntrenme (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
éntrenlo (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
éntrenla (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
éntrennos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
éntrenlos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
éntrenlas (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
éntrense (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)

→ Middle Dutch: enteren

Dutch: enteren

→ Middle Low German: entern

German Low German: entern

→ German: entern

Inherited from Old Spanish, from Latin intrāre. Cognate with English enter.


slog

en-noun

slog (countable and uncountable, plural slogs)

Probably a variation of slug (“to hit very hard”) or slough.
Possibly related to slag, seen in the North Germanic languages, in association with the third verb and second noun definition.

(countable, cricket) An aggressive shot played with little skill.


offensive foul

(basketball) A foul committed by a member of the team with possession of the ball.


pinball

pinball (countable and uncountable, plural pinballs)

→ Portuguese: pinball

→ Spanish: pinball

The opener came from a Jarvis ball which struck Aleksandar Kolarov en route to a lively round of pinball between City players before it was poked in by Milijas.

2011 January 15, Saj Chowdhury, “Man City 4 - 3 Wolves”, in BBC:

(figuratively, soccer) A situation where a ball is frantically kicked between many players.


boll

boll (indefinite nominative singular)
bolls (genitive indefinite singular)
bollen (definite nominative singular)
bollens (definite genitive singular)
bollar (indefinite nominative plural)
bollars (genitive indefinite plural)
bollarna (definite nominative plural)
bollarnas (definite genitive plural)

→ Finnish: polla, bolla

From Old Swedish balder, baller, from Old Norse bǫllr (“ball, globe”), from Proto-Germanic *balluz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰoln- (“round thing, bubble”), from *bʰel- (“to blow, inflate, swell”).

inh

Jag tänker tillbaks på min korta sejour som tolvårig grabb i fotbollsskor. Jag fick instruktioner, jag skulle gå som back till vänster och tänka på att kämpa och springa och bara slå långa bollar på Bengt.

1992, Svenne Rubins (lyrics and music), “Långa bollar på Bengt [Long balls to [on] Bengt]”, in Sex män i skor [Six men in shoes]:

I think back on my brief sojourn as a twelve-year-old boy in soccer shoes. I was given instructions, I was to go as a back to the left and remember to fight and run and only hit long balls to Bengt.


charging

en-noun

charging (countable and uncountable, plural chargings)

/ˈt͡ʃɑɹd͡ʒɪŋ/

[ˈt͡ʃaɹd͡ʒɪŋ]

/ˈt͡ʃɑːd͡ʒɪŋ/

[ˈt͡ʃaːd͡ʒɪŋ]

Smith is called for charging, and the Nimrods will get the ball.

(uncountable, basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.


nod

en-verb

nod (third-person singular simple present nods, present participle nodding, simple past and past participle nodded)

nods (present singular third-person)
nodding (participle present)
nodded (participle past)
nodded (past)

From Middle English nodden, probably from an unrecorded Old English *hnodian (“to nod, shake the head”), from Proto-Germanic *hnudōną (“to beat, rivet, pound, push”), from Proto-Indo-European *kendʰ-, from *ken- (“to scratch, scrape, rub”). Compare Old High German hnotōn (“to shake”), hnutten (“to shake, rattle, vibrate”) (> modern dialectal German notteln, nütteln (“to rock, move back and forth”)), Icelandic hnjóða (“to rivet, clinch”).

inh

Jones nods the ball back to his goalkeeper.

With the hosts not able to find their passes - everything that went forward was too heavy or too short - Terry once again had to come to his side's rescue after Davies had brilliantly nodded into the path of Elmander, who followed up swiftly with a deflected shot.

2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC:

(transitive, intransitive, soccer) To head; to strike the ball with one's head.


over the wicket

(cricket) bowling the ball from the side of the wicket that puts the bowler's bowling hand closer to the wicket


around the wicket

(cricket) Bowling the ball from the side of the wicket that puts the bowler's bowling hand farther from the wicket


LBW

en-noun

LBW (countable and uncountable, plural LBWs)

The Authentic, getting in front of his wicket, to pull one of the simplest long-hops ever seen on a cricket field, missed it, and was l.b.w.

1919, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 13, in Mike:

leg before wicket
leg before wicket#English

(cricket) Initialism of leg before wicket.


outswing

(cricket) The swing of the ball through the air, in a direction away from the batsman.


back foot

(cricket) The batsman's foot closest to the wicket


back foot shot

(cricket) A shot played by the batsman with most of his weight on the back foot.


bad light

(cricket) A weather condition where the light is so poor that the umpires feel that to continue playing would be dangerous.


front foot shot

front foot shot (plural front foot shots)

(cricket) A shot played by the batsman with most of his weight on the front foot.


offer the light

en-verb

offer the light (third-person singular simple present offers the light, present participle offering the light, simple past and past participle offered the light)

offers the light (present singular third-person)
offering the light (participle present)
offered the light (participle past)
offered the light (past)

(intransitive, cricket, of the umpires) To ask the batsmen if they wish to continue playing in conditions of poor light. If they do not, play is suspended for bad light.


moving screen

(basketball, informal) An offensive foul committed when a player executing a screen moves in order to block the defender and makes contact. Technically it is a block; in other words, there is no such terminology in most rulebooks using the phrase "moving screen." This means that, for it to be a foul, there must be contact (and illegal contact at that, meaning advantage-conveying). No illegal contact, no foul, no matter how much moving the screener does.


front foot

(cricket) The batsman's foot farthest from his wicket.


opening

From Middle English openynge, openande, openand, from Old English openiende, from Proto-West Germanic *opanōndī, from Proto-Germanic *upanōndz, present participle of *upanōną (“to open”), equivalent to open + -ing. Cognate with West Frisian iepenjend, Dutch openend, German öffnend, Swedish öppnande, Icelandic opnandi.

/ˈəʊ.pə.nɪŋ/

opens the attack
open the attack#English

(cricket) describing the first period of play, usually up to the fall of the first wicket; describing a batsman who opens the innings or a bowler who opens the attack


blockhole

(cricket) A small depression in the pitch caused by batsmen tapping their bats on the point where they have taken block.


leg before wicket

(cricket) Describing the way of getting out in which the ball would have hit the batsman's wicket, but hits the batsman's legs or more rarely another part of the batsman's body without first hitting the bat or a hand holding the bat.


leg before wicket

en-noun

leg before wicket (plural leg before wickets)

(cricket) An instance of a batsman being out due to the leg before wicket law.


take guard

en-verb

take guard (third-person singular simple present takes guard, present participle taking guard, simple past took guard, past participle taken guard)

takes guard (present singular third-person)
taking guard (participle present)
took guard (past)
taken guard (participle past)

(idiomatic, cricket) (For a new batsman, with help from the umpire) to mark a point on the popping crease in front of his wicket so that he knows where it is behind him; to guard.


bodyline

The Cousins changed the game entirely, said the blimpish fellow: much as he might have deplored power tennis or bodyline bowling.

1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 3:

(cricket, now historical) Designating a form of bowling (now against the rules) characterised by fast, short-pitched balls aimed at the batsman's body or leg stump rather than the wicket.


bottom edge

(cricket) The edge of a bat closest to the ground.

(cricket) A deflection of a ball off of the bottom edge of a bat, onto the ground and potentially into the wicket.


bottom edge

bottom edge (third-person singular simple present bottom edges, present participle bottom edging, simple past and past participle bottom edged)

bottom edges (present singular third-person)
bottom edging (participle present)
bottom edged (participle past)
bottom edged (past)

(cricket) To hit the ball with the bottom edge of the bat.


top edge

(cricket) The edge of a bat farthest from the ground.

(cricket) A deflection of a ball off of the top edge of a bat, into the air and potentially for a catch.


top edge

top edge (third-person singular simple present top edges, present participle top edging, simple past and past participle top edged)

top edges (present singular third-person)
top edging (participle present)
top edged (participle past)
top edged (past)

(cricket) To hit the ball with the top edge of the bat.


outside edge

(cricket) The edge of a bat farthest from the body of the batsman.

(cricket) A deflection of a ball off of the outside edge of a bat, often to the slips or wicket keeper for a catch.


outside edge

outside edge (third-person singular simple present outside edges, present participle outside edging, simple past and past participle outside edged)

outside edges (present singular third-person)
outside edging (participle present)
outside edged (participle past)
outside edged (past)

(cricket) To hit the ball with the outside edge of the bat.


inside edge

(cricket) The edge of a bat closest to the body of the batsman.

(cricket) A deflection of a ball off of the inside edge of a bat, sometimes to the wicket keeper for a catch.


inside edge

inside edge (third-person singular simple present inside edges, present participle inside edging, simple past and past participle inside edged)

inside edges (present singular third-person)
inside edging (participle present)
inside edged (participle past)
inside edged (past)

(cricket) To hit the ball with the inside edge of the bat.


flipper

From flip + -er. Compare Saterland Frisian Flappert (“flipper, wing”).

cog

(cricket) A type of ball bowled by a leg spin bowler, which spins backwards and skids off the pitch with a low bounce.


beamer

From beam (“project, transmit”) + -er (agent noun suffix), or, for the ball, + -er (patient suffix).

suf

(cricket) A ball, presumed to have been bowled accidentally, that does not bounce, but reaches the batsman above the waist.


Test match

(cricket) A five-day first class match between sides representing the official Test nations.

(rugby union, field hockey) An international match between the teams of two nations.

rugby union; field hockey; rugby union; field hockey


Test nation

(cricket) Any of the officially recognised nations who play Test cricket: Australia, Bangladesh, England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, the West Indies, and Zimbabwe.


first class match

en-noun

first class match (plural first class matches)

(cricket) A three- or five-day cricket match, with two innings per side, played under a set of conditions specified and officially recognised by an official governing body of cricket.


back up

en-verb

back up (third-person singular simple present backs up, present participle backing up, simple past and past participle backed up)

backs up (present singular third-person)
backing up (participle present)
backed up (participle past)
backed up (past)

(idiomatic, intransitive, cricket) For the non-striker to take a few steps down the pitch, in preparation to taking a run, just as the bowler bowls the ball.

ottaa muutama askel taaksepäin

(idiomatic, intransitive, cricket) For a fielder to position himself behind the wicket (relative to a team-mate who is throwing the ball at the wicket) so as to stop the ball, and prevent overthrows.


tailender

The Bushrangers moved a step closer to securing a berth in the final when tailenders Damien Wright and Clint McKay posted a century stand on day two, which gave the Vics a first-innings 400.

2009 January 31, Michael Horan, “Andrew McDonald strikes early for Victoria”, in Herald Sun:

(cricket) One of the last four or five batsmen in the batting order, normally bowlers with limited batting ability; a member of the tail.


all out

(cricket) The state of a side having no more men to bat, thus ending its innings.


tickle

From Middle English tiklen, tikelen, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from a frequentative form of Middle English tikken (“to touch lightly”), thus equivalent to tick + -le; or perhaps related to Old English tinclian (“to tickle”). Compare North Frisian tigele (“to tickle”) (Hallig dialect), and tiikle (“to tickle”) (Amrum dialect), German dialectal zicklen (“to excite; stir up”).
Alternatively, from a metathetic alteration of Middle English kitelen ("to tickle"; see kittle).

gloss

"to tickle"; see <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">kittle</i>

There's a very fine line between a tickle and an edge!

2016, Ann Waterhouse, Cricket Made Simple:

(cricket, informal) A light tap of the ball.


benefit of the doubt

en-noun

benefit of the doubt (countable and uncountable, plural benefits of the doubt)

(cricket) The principle employed by umpires in cases of uncertainty concerning a batsman possibly being out, in which the decision must be in the batsman's favour.


West Indies

From west + Indies. From being lands called the Indies, of the West. From being mistaken for the East Indies (aka, the Indies).

(cricket) A Federation of Caribbean states which, together with Guyana, play Test matches as if they were a single nation.


tii

tii (nominative singular)
tiit (nominative plural)
tii (accusative nominative singular)
tiit (accusative nominative plural)
tiin (accusative genitive singular)
tiit (accusative genitive plural)
tiin (genitive singular)
tiiden (genitive plural)
tiitten (genitive plural)
tiitä (partitive singular)
tiitä (partitive plural)
tiissä (inessive singular)
tiissä (inessive plural)
tiistä (elative singular)
tiistä (elative plural)
tiihin (illative singular)
tiihin (illative plural)
tiillä (adessive singular)
tiillä (adessive plural)
tiiltä (ablative singular)
tiiltä (ablative plural)
tiille (allative singular)
tiille (allative plural)
tiinä (essive singular)
tiinä (essive plural)
tiiksi (singular translative)
tiiksi (plural translative)
tiittä (abessive singular)
tiittä (abessive plural)
tiin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
tiini (nominative singular)
tiini (nominative plural)
tiini (accusative nominative singular)
tiini (accusative nominative plural)
tiini (accusative genitive singular)
tiini (accusative genitive plural)
tiini (genitive singular)
tiideni (genitive plural)
tiitteni (genitive plural)
tiitäni (partitive singular)
tiitäni (partitive plural)
tiissäni (inessive singular)
tiissäni (inessive plural)
tiistäni (elative singular)
tiistäni (elative plural)
tiihini (illative singular)
tiihini (illative plural)
tiilläni (adessive singular)
tiilläni (adessive plural)
tiiltäni (ablative singular)
tiiltäni (ablative plural)
tiilleni (allative singular)
tiilleni (allative plural)
tiinäni (essive singular)
tiinäni (essive plural)
tiikseni (singular translative)
tiikseni (plural translative)
tiittäni (abessive singular)
tiittäni (abessive plural)
tiineni (comitative plural)
tiisi (nominative singular)
tiisi (nominative plural)
tiisi (accusative nominative singular)
tiisi (accusative nominative plural)
tiisi (accusative genitive singular)
tiisi (accusative genitive plural)
tiisi (genitive singular)
tiidesi (genitive plural)
tiittesi (genitive plural)
tiitäsi (partitive singular)
tiitäsi (partitive plural)
tiissäsi (inessive singular)
tiissäsi (inessive plural)
tiistäsi (elative singular)
tiistäsi (elative plural)
tiihisi (illative singular)
tiihisi (illative plural)
tiilläsi (adessive singular)
tiilläsi (adessive plural)
tiiltäsi (ablative singular)
tiiltäsi (ablative plural)
tiillesi (allative singular)
tiillesi (allative plural)
tiinäsi (essive singular)
tiinäsi (essive plural)
tiiksesi (singular translative)
tiiksesi (plural translative)
tiittäsi (abessive singular)
tiittäsi (abessive plural)
tiinesi (comitative plural)
tiimme (nominative singular)
tiimme (nominative plural)
tiimme (accusative nominative singular)
tiimme (accusative nominative plural)
tiimme (accusative genitive singular)
tiimme (accusative genitive plural)
tiimme (genitive singular)
tiidemme (genitive plural)
tiittemme (genitive plural)
tiitämme (partitive singular)
tiitämme (partitive plural)
tiissämme (inessive singular)
tiissämme (inessive plural)
tiistämme (elative singular)
tiistämme (elative plural)
tiihimme (illative singular)
tiihimme (illative plural)
tiillämme (adessive singular)
tiillämme (adessive plural)
tiiltämme (ablative singular)
tiiltämme (ablative plural)
tiillemme (allative singular)
tiillemme (allative plural)
tiinämme (essive singular)
tiinämme (essive plural)
tiiksemme (singular translative)
tiiksemme (plural translative)
tiittämme (abessive singular)
tiittämme (abessive plural)
tiinemme (comitative plural)
tiinne (nominative singular)
tiinne (nominative plural)
tiinne (accusative nominative singular)
tiinne (accusative nominative plural)
tiinne (accusative genitive singular)
tiinne (accusative genitive plural)
tiinne (genitive singular)
tiidenne (genitive plural)
tiittenne (genitive plural)
tiitänne (partitive singular)
tiitänne (partitive plural)
tiissänne (inessive singular)
tiissänne (inessive plural)
tiistänne (elative singular)
tiistänne (elative plural)
tiihinne (illative singular)
tiihinne (illative plural)
tiillänne (adessive singular)
tiillänne (adessive plural)
tiiltänne (ablative singular)
tiiltänne (ablative plural)
tiillenne (allative singular)
tiillenne (allative plural)
tiinänne (essive singular)
tiinänne (essive plural)
tiiksenne (singular translative)
tiiksenne (plural translative)
tiittänne (abessive singular)
tiittänne (abessive plural)
tiinenne (comitative plural)
tiinsä (nominative singular)
tiinsä (nominative plural)
tiinsä (accusative nominative singular)
tiinsä (accusative nominative plural)
tiinsä (accusative genitive singular)
tiinsä (accusative genitive plural)
tiinsä (genitive singular)
tiidensä (genitive plural)
tiittensä (genitive plural)
tiitään (partitive singular)
tiitänsä (partitive singular)
tiitään (partitive plural)
tiitänsä (partitive plural)
tiissään (inessive singular)
tiissänsä (inessive singular)
tiissään (inessive plural)
tiissänsä (inessive plural)
tiistään (elative singular)
tiistänsä (elative singular)
tiistään (elative plural)
tiistänsä (elative plural)
tiihinsä (illative singular)
tiihinsä (illative plural)
tiillään (adessive singular)
tiillänsä (adessive singular)
tiillään (adessive plural)
tiillänsä (adessive plural)
tiiltään (ablative singular)
tiiltänsä (ablative singular)
tiiltään (ablative plural)
tiiltänsä (ablative plural)
tiilleen (allative singular)
tiillensä (allative singular)
tiilleen (allative plural)
tiillensä (allative plural)
tiinään (essive singular)
tiinänsä (essive singular)
tiinään (essive plural)
tiinänsä (essive plural)
tiikseen (singular translative)
tiiksensä (singular translative)
tiikseen (plural translative)
tiiksensä (plural translative)
tiittään (abessive singular)
tiittänsä (abessive singular)
tiittään (abessive plural)
tiittänsä (abessive plural)
tiineen (comitative plural)
tiinensä (comitative plural)


howzat

(cricket) The cry used by members of the fielding team to make an appeal to the umpire.


bottom hand

(cricket) With a standard batting grip, the hand placed further down the handle of the bat; the batsman's dominant hand, providing most power to a shot.


bottom order

(cricket) The batsmen, constituting the tail, who bat last - roughly in positions 8 to 11.


batting order

(cricket, baseball, softball) The sequence in which a side's batsmen go in to bat.


bowling average

bowling average (plural bowling averages)

(cricket) The number of runs conceded divided by the number of wickets taken, used as a statistic.


dribble

en-verb

dribble (third-person singular simple present dribbles, present participle dribbling, simple past and past participle dribbled)

dribbles (present singular third-person)
dribbling (participle present)
dribbled (participle past)
dribbled (past)

→⇒ Czech: driblovat

→ Dutch: dribbelen

→ French: dribbler

→ German: dribbeln

→ Portuguese: drible, driblar

→ Spanish: driblar

From drib + -le (early modern English frequentative suffix).

suffix

(basketball, soccer) In various ball games, to move (with) the ball, controlling its path by kicking or bouncing it repeatedly.

дриблирам

to move (with) a ball by kicking or bouncing it


bowling crease

(cricket) The white line marked at each end of the pitch through the wicket and ending at the return creases. When bowling the bowler's front foot must not cross this line until after the ball has been delivered.


bowling figures

(cricket) A group of statistics listed for each bowler in a single innings:- number of overs bowled, number of maiden overs bowled, number of runs conceded and number of wickets taken.

(cricket) Collectively the bowling figures for all the bowlers who bowled in an innings or match.


batting average

en-noun

batting average (plural batting averages)

(cricket) A statistical estimation of the scoring ability of a batsman, equal to the total number of runs scored divided by the number of times out.

Jones has a .279 batting average.

(baseball) A statistical estimation of the hitting ability of a batter, equal to the number of hits divided by the number of official at-bats. Normally expressed as a real number instead of an average despite the name.


bowled

(cricket) (Dismissed) by the bowled ball hitting and breaking the batsman's wicket.


bowl out

en-verb

bowl out (third-person singular simple present bowls out, present participle bowling out, simple past and past participle bowled out)

bowls out (present singular third-person)
bowling out (participle present)
bowled out (participle past)
bowled out (past)

(cricket, of a side) To take all the opponents' wickets (in whatever way) and thus end their innings.

(cricket, of a bowler or batsman) To dismiss or be dismissed bowled.


bump ball

The umpire believed, mistakenly, that it was a bump ball and Boucher was allowed to remain at the crease.

2005, David Fraser, Cricket and the Law: The Man in White is Always Right, →ISBN, page 302:

(cricket) A ball that bounces off of the pitch immediately after being hit by the bat, and goes up in the air.


movement

en-noun

movement (countable and uncountable, plural movements)

From Middle English mevement, from Old French movement (modern French mouvement), from movoir + -ment; cf. also Medieval Latin movimentum, from Latin movere (“move”). Doublet of moment and momentum. In this sense, displaced native Old English styring, which led to Modern English stirring.
Morphologically move + -ment.

eye movement desensitization and reprocessing

The movement on his cutter was devastating.

(baseball) The deviation of a pitch from ballistic flight.


tunnel

tunnelen (definite singular)
tunneler (indefinite plural)
tunnelene (definite plural)


tunnel

tunnelen (definite singular)
tunnelar (indefinite plural)
tunnelane (definite plural)

From English tunnel, Middle French tonnelle (“net”) or tonel (“cask”), diminutive of Old French tonne (“cask”), a word of uncertain origin and affiliation.


umpire

From a Middle English rebracketing of a noumpere as an oumpere, from Old French nonper (“odd number, not even (as a tie-breaking arbitrator)”), from non (“not”) + per (“equal”), from Latin par (“equal”). Doublet of nonpareil.

съдия

an official who oversees a game or match

An official who presides over a sports match.

(tennis, badminton) The official who presides over a tennis match sat on a high chair.

(cricket) One of the two white-coated officials who preside over a cricket match.

The umpire called the pitch a strike.

(baseball) One of the officials who preside over a baseball game.

The umpire must keep on his toes as the play often occurs around him.

(American football) The official who stands behind the line on the defensive side or next to the referee on the offensive side.

Australian rules football
Australian rules football

(Australian rules football) A match official on the ground deciding and enforcing the rules during play. As of 2007 the Australian Football League uses three; in the past there were two or just one. The other officials, the goal umpires and boundary umpires, are usually referred to by those phrases.


bowler

(cricket) A player selected mainly for his bowling ability.

syöttäjä

cricket: player selected mainly for his bowling ability


rhubarb

en-noun

rhubarb (countable and uncountable, plural rhubarbs)

Attributed to the circa 1852 practice by the theatre company of English actor Charles Kean (1811–1868) at the Princess’s Theatre, London, of actors saying the word rhubarb repetitively to mimic the sound of indistinct conversation, the word having been chosen because it does not have harsh-sounding consonants or clear vowels.
The baseball senses are said to have been coined by the American sports writer Garry Schumacher and popularized by the American baseball commentator Red Barber (1908–1992). Barber also claimed to have started using the word in the 1940s, based on the practice in “early radio dramas” (presumably in the US, circa 1930) of actors repetitively voicing rhubarb. However, unlike the UK usage, he felt the practice applied to muttering by an angry mob, and so applied the word to arguments on the baseball field where he could not distinguish the words.

Out in the bullpen, Chip Hilton and Soapy Smith had stopped throwing to watch the argument—what ballplayers call a "rhubarb."

1953, Clair Bee, “The Fireman Arrives”, in Fence Busters (Chip Hilton Sports Series; 11), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC; republished as Clair Bee, Randall K. Farley, Cynthia Bee Farley, Fence Busters, Nashville, Tenn.: Broadman & Holman, 1999, →ISBN:

Richie Ashburn slid into third, and Billy Cox, Dodger third baseman, made the tag, [Umpire Beans] Reardon yelled "safe" but raised his hand in the "out" sign. Naturally, a rhubarb.

1960, Joe Garagiola, “The Loners”, in Baseball Is a Funny Game:

(US, originally baseball, countable) An excited, angry exchange of words, especially at a sporting event.

But damned if it don't seem like killin' him would stir up an even bigger political rhubarb. I mean, it ain't like nobody'd have to be told who did it.

1973, Matthew Braun, El Paso, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Paperbacks, published July 1999, →ISBN, page 142:

(US, originally baseball, by extension, countable) A brawl.


sink

en-verb

sink (third-person singular simple present sinks, present participle sinking, simple past sank or sunk, past participle sunk or sunken)

sinks (present singular third-person)
sinking (participle present)
sank (past)
sunk (past)
sunk (participle past)
sunken (participle past)

From Middle English synken, from Old English sincan, from Proto-West Germanic *sinkwan, from Proto-Germanic *sinkwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sengʷ- (“to fall, sink”).
Compare West Frisian sinke, Low German sinken, Dutch zinken, German sinken, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål synke, Swedish sjunka. In the causative sense, it replaced Old English senċan (“make sink”) from Proto-Germanic *sankwijaną.

der

My sister beats me at pool in public a second time. I claim some dignity back by potting two of my balls before Tammy sinks the black.

2008, Edward Keating, The Joy of Ex: A Novel:

(heading, physical) To move or be moved into something.

(transitive, snooker, pool, billiards, golf) To pot; hit a ball into a pocket or hole.


sink

a bathroom sink sink (canonical)
sinks (plural)

Jones has a two-seamer with heavy sink.

(uncountable) Descending motion; descent.

(baseball) The motion of a sinker pitch.

Descending motion; descent.
The motion of a sinker pitch.


wicket

From Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French wiket, from Old Norse (specifically, Old East Norse) víkjas, diminutive of vik. Compare modern French guichet, ultimately from the same Old Norse source.

(cricket) One of the two wooden structures at each end of the pitch, consisting of three vertical stumps and two bails; the target for the bowler, defended by the batsman.

paaltjies

cricket: wooden structure at each end of the pit

(cricket) A dismissal; the act of a batsman getting out.

(cricket) The period during which two batsmen bat together.

(cricket) The area around the stumps where the batsmen stand.

pesä

cricket: area around the stumps where the batsmen stand

(croquet) Any of the small arches through which the balls are driven.


carry the bat

en-verb

carry the bat (third-person singular simple present carries the bat, present participle carrying the bat, simple past and past participle carried the bat)

carries the bat (present singular third-person)
carrying the bat (participle present)
carried the bat (participle past)
carried the bat (past)

(cricket) To bat throughout the whole of an innings, being one of the openers and remaining not out when 10 wickets have fallen.


hopper

From Middle English hoppere, alteration of *hoppe (found in grashoppe (“grasshopper”)), from Old English *hoppa (“one who hops, hopper”), equivalent to hop + -er. Cognate with Dutch hopper (“hopper”), Swedish hoppare (“hopper, jumper”), Icelandic hoppari (“hopper”).

der

Various insects
The larva of a cheese fly.

(chess) A fairy chess piece which moves only by jumping over another piece.


caught and bowled

(cricket) Out by being caught by the bowler.


caught behind

(cricket) Out by being caught by the wicketkeeper.


caught behind

(cricket) An instance of being out by being caught behind the wicket by the wicketkeeper.


double double

Norwegian Bokmål: dobbel-dobbel

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-double double.wav

(coffee): Used by the Tim Hortons restaurant chain.

The center had 11 assists and 10 blocks tonight for a very unusual double double.

Steven Adams and Enes Kanter wreaked havoc for Oklahoma City. Kanter came off the bench to score 27 points, block three shots and add 10 rebounds. Adams had a double-double, too, with 14 points and 10 rebounds at center.

2016 November 28, Mike Vorkunov, “Despite Flash of Rose’s Prime, Knicks Are Dazed by Westbrook and Thunder”, in The New York Times:

(basketball) The achievement of a two-digit number of any two of points scored, assists, rebounds, blocks, or steals in a single game.

Nonetheless, the team gave a good accounting of themselves, and freshman Kara Rogers scored a double/double in kills and digs in her first collegiate game.

2012, Garrett, Burdeshaw, Spearman, Legacy of the Blues: a Century of Athletics at the W, page A-261:

(volleyball) Achieving two kills and two digs by a single player in one game.


change of innings

en-noun

change of innings (plural changes of innings)

(cricket) The ten-minute interval between one side's innings ending and the other side's beginning.


chucker

(cricket) A bowler who throws or chucks the ball rather than bowling it.


clean bowl

en-verb

clean bowl (third-person singular simple present clean bowls, present participle clean bowling, simple past and past participle clean bowled)

clean bowls (present singular third-person)
clean bowling (participle present)
clean bowled (participle past)
clean bowled (past)

clean (“without mistakes or errors”, adverb) + bowl.

(cricket) To bowl a batsman out with the ball hitting neither the bat nor the pads on the way to the stumps.


close of play

(tennis) The end of the final game (not to be confused with set or match) during a day at the Wimbledon Championships.


close the face

close the face (third-person singular simple present closes the face, present participle closing the face, simple past and past participle closed the face)

closes the face (present singular third-person)
closing the face (participle present)
closed the face (participle past)
closed the face (past)

(idiomatic, cricket) To turn the face of the bat inwards, in order to hit the ball to the leg side.


chuck

From earlier chock, likely imitative, but perhaps also from Middle English chokken (“to thrust, pierce, cram”), from Picard Old French chuquier (“to collide, strike”, intransitive verb), from Middle Dutch schocken (“to bump, shake”). Doublet of shock and shuck.

der

(cricket, informal) A throw, an incorrect bowling action.


chuck

en-verb

chuck (third-person singular simple present chucks, present participle chucking, simple past and past participle chucked)

chucks (present singular third-person)
chucking (participle present)
chucked (participle past)
chucked (past)

(intransitive, cricket) To throw; to bowl with an incorrect action.


bumper

Dutch: bumper

Japanese: バンパー (banpā)

Korean: 범퍼 (beompeo)

Russian: ба́мпер (bámper)


corridor of uncertainty

en-noun

corridor of uncertainty (plural corridors of uncertainty)

(cricket) The area near the batsman's off stump where, if a ball passes, the batsman is unsure whether to play it (and risk an edge) or leave it (and risk being bowled).


cow corner

cow corner (countable and uncountable, plural cow corners)

(cricket, slang) A region of the field, roughly between deep midwicket and long on.


cover point

(cricket, lacrosse) a fielding position between cover and point, about 15° forward of square; a fielder in this position.


cross bat

(cricket) The bat, when swung in a horizontal arc.


cross bat

(cricket) Of a shot: played with a cross bat.


cover drive

(cricket) A type of shot played by the batsman bringing the bat down vertically and hitting the ball along the ground in the direction of cover.


cover drive

en-verb

cover drive (third-person singular simple present cover drives, present participle cover driving, simple past cover drove, past participle cover driven)

cover drives (present singular third-person)
cover driving (participle present)
cover drove (past)
cover driven (participle past)

(intransitive, cricket) To play a cover drive shot.


rush

Perhaps from Middle English ruschen, russchen (“to rush, startle, make a loud rushing noise”), from Old English hrysċan (“to jolt, startle”), from Proto-West Germanic *hurskijan, from Proto-Germanic *hurskijaną (“to startle, drive”), from *hurskaz (“fast, rapid, quick”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- (“to run, hurry”).
Cognate with Old High German hursken (“to hurry, speed, incite, accelerate”), Old English horsc (“quick, quick-witted, clever”).
etymology note
An alternative etymology traces rush via Middle English rouschen (“to rush”) from Old English *rūscian (“to rush”) from Proto-Germanic *rūskōną (“to rush, storm, be fierce, be cruel”), a variant (with formative k) of Proto-Germanic *rūsōną (“to be cruel, storm, rush”) from Proto-Indo-European *(o)rewə- (“to drive, move, agitate”), making it akin to Old High German rosc, rosci (“quick”), Middle Low German rûschen (“to rush”), Middle High German rūschen, riuschen (“to rush”) (German rauschen (“to rush”)), North Frisian ruse (“to rush”), Middle Dutch ruuscen (“to make haste”), Middle Dutch rūsen (“to rush”) (Dutch ruisen (“to rush”)), Danish ruse (“to rush”), Swedish rusa (“to rush”). Compare Middle High German rūsch (“a charge, rush”). Influenced by Middle English russhen (“to force back”) from Anglo-Norman russher, russer from Old French ruser, rëuser.
Alternatively, according to the OED, perhaps an adaptation of Anglo-Norman russher, russer (“to force back, down, out of place, by violent impact", "to pull out or drag off violently or hastily”), from Old French re(h)usser, ruser (although the connection of the forms with single -s- and double -ss- is dubious; also adopted in English ruse; French ruser (“to retreat, drive back”)), from an assumed Vulgar Latin *refūsāre and Latin refundō (“I cause to flow back”), although connection to the same Germanic root is also possible. More at rouse.

раш

video games: act of running at another player with large swarm of weak units — see also zerg

the center rush, whose place is in the center of the rush line

(American football, dated) A rusher; a lineman.

(croquet) A roquet in which the object ball is sent to a particular location on the lawn.


rush

en-verb

rush (third-person singular simple present rushes, present participle rushing, simple past and past participle rushed)

rushes (present singular third-person)
rushing (participle present)
rushed (participle past)
rushed (past)

(intransitive, soccer) To dribble rapidly.

(transitive or intransitive, croquet) To roquet an object ball to a particular location on the lawn.

krokata

croquet: to roquet an object ball to a particular location on the lawn


danger area

(cricket) A rectangular protected area of the pitch on which bowlers may not run in their follow through so as to avoid damage.


remove

remove (third-person singular simple present removes, present participle removing, simple past and past participle removed)

removes (present singular third-person)
removing (participle present)
removed (participle past)
removed (past)

settle

antonym(s) of “move something from one place to another”

From Middle English removen, from Anglo-Norman remover, removeir, from Old French remouvoir, from Latin removēre, from re- + movēre (“to move”), equivalent to re- + move. Displaced native Old English āfierran.

យកចេញ

yɔɔ kɑɑ cəɲ, yɔɔk cəɲ

(cricket, transitive) To dismiss a batsman.


dead ball

(ball games) The ball when dead and out of play.


fence

en-noun

fence (countable and uncountable, plural fences)

→ Pennsylvania German: Fens

From Middle English fence, fens, short for defence, defens (“the act of defending”), from Old French defens, defense (see defence).
The sense "enclosure" arises in the mid 15th century.
Also from the 15th century is use as a verb in the sense "to enclose with a fence". The generalized sense "to defend, screen, protect" arises ca. 1500. The sense "to fight with swords (rapiers)" is from the 1590s (Shakespeare).
Displaced native Old English heġe (compare Modern English hedge).

the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence


covers

(cricket) The area of the field near cover and extra cover.


dead bat

(cricket) The bat when held with a light grip such that it gives when the ball strikes it, and the ball loses momentum and falls to the ground.


dead bat

en-verb

dead bat (third-person singular simple present dead bats, present participle dead batting, simple past and past participle dead batted)

dead bats (present singular third-person)
dead batting (participle present)
dead batted (participle past)
dead batted (past)

2022, Amit Sinha, Joy Bhattacharjya, Do Different: The Untold Dhoni
Known for his innovative and unpredictable strokeplay, Dhoni had dead-batted this doosra straight back to the bowler.

(transitive, cricket) To play (the ball) with a dead bat.


pistol

Probably from Middle French pistole, or via Middle English pistolet, from Middle French pistolet (“small firearm or small dagger”).
The origin is unclear, if via German to Romance probably from Middle High German forms like pischulle from Czech píšťala (“firearm”, literally “tube, pipe”), from Proto-Slavic *piščalь, from *piskati, *piščati (“to squeak, whistle”), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *pīṣk-.
Alternatively, if from Romance to German, from or related to Italian pistolese (“short dagger”), from Italian Pistoia (“a Tuscan town noted for its gunsmithing”).

der

(American football) An offensive formation in which the quarterback receives the snap at a distance behind the center, but closer than in a shotgun formation, with a running back lined up behind him.


bye

Variant form of by, from Old English bī (“being near”).

'bye' may be longer than 'bi, by and buy' for some speakers

(cricket) An extra scored when the batsmen take runs after the ball has passed the striker without hitting either the bat or the batsman.


deep cover

(cricket) a fielding position on the off side, about 30° forward of square and near the boundary; a fielder in that position.


solo

Borrowed from Italian solo, from Latin sōlus, probably related to se (“himself”).

(Gaelic football) An instance of soloing the football.


solo

en-verb

solo (third-person singular simple present solos or soloes, present participle soloing, simple past and past participle soloed)

solos (present singular third-person)
soloes (present singular third-person)
soloing (participle present)
soloed (participle past)
soloed (past)

→ Portuguese: solar

(Gaelic football) To drop the ball and then toe-kick it upward into the hands.


deep midwicket

(cricket) A fielding position on the leg side, about 30° forward of square and near the boundary; a fielder in that position.


deep square leg

en-noun

deep square leg (countable and uncountable, plural deep square legs)

(cricket) A fielding position on the leg side, square of the batsman's wicket; a fielder in that position.


square leg umpire

square leg umpire (plural square leg umpires)

(cricket) The umpire who stands at or near square leg to rule on decisions at the batsman's end of the wicket.


deep point

Buttler was the more fluent, scooping and driving, but when he was caught at deep point for 59, England still needed 46 from 31 balls.

2019 July 14, Stephan Shemilt, “England win Cricket World Cup: Ben Stokes stars in dramatic finale against New Zealand”, in BBC Sport, London:

(cricket) A fielding position on the off side, square of the batsman's wicket and near the boundary


cordon

From Middle English cordon, from Middle French cordon, from Old French cordon, diminutive of corde. More at cord.

(cricket) The arc of fielders on the off side, behind the batsman: the slips and gully. [from 20th c.]


square leg

square leg (countable and uncountable, plural square legs)

(cricket) A fielding position on the leg side, square of the batsman's wicket, between leg gully and midwicket; a fielder in that position.


did not bat

Coordinate term: not out

(cricket) Denotes a player who did not bat in an innings played by their side.


fault

From Middle English faute, faulte, from Anglo-Norman faute, Old French faute, from Vulgar Latin *fallita (“shortcoming”), feminine of *fallitus, in place of Latin falsus, perfect passive participle of fallō (“deceive”). Displaced native Middle English schuld, schuild (“fault”) (from Old English scyld (“fault”)), Middle English lac (“fault, lack”) (from Middle Dutch lak (“lack, fault”)), Middle English last (“fault, vice”) (from Old Norse lǫstr (“fault, vice, crime”)). Compare French faute (“fault, foul”), Portuguese falta (“lack, shortage”) and Spanish falta (“lack, absence”). More at fail, false.

cog

It is a fault if the ball served drop in the net, or beyond the Service-Line, or if it drop out of Court, or in the wrong Court. A fault may not be taken. After a fault, the Server shall serve again from the same Court from which he served that fault.

1879, Julian Marshall, Lawn-tennis: With the Laws Adopted by the M. C. C., and A. E. C. & L. T. C., and Badminton, page 8:

A mistake or error.
(tennis) An illegal serve.

If the horse refuses an obstacle, the rider will receive four faults.

(equestrianism) A penalty point assessed in horseback events such as show jumping.


barn door

(cricket) A player who blocks every ball.


screen

From Middle English scren, screne (“windscreen, firescreen”), from Anglo-Norman escren (“firescreen, the tester of a bed”), Old French escren, escrein, escran (modern French écran (“screen”)), from Middle Dutch scherm, from Old Dutch *skirm, from Proto-West Germanic *skirmi, from Proto-Germanic *skirmiz (“fur, shelter, covering, screen”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut, divide”).
Cognate with Dutch scherm (“screen”), German Schirm (“screen”). Doublet of scherm.
An alternative etymology derives Old French escren, escran from Old Dutch *scranc (“barrier”) (compare Middle Dutch schranc, schranke (“palisade, trellis, grid”), German Schrank (“cupboard, cabinet”), German Schranke (“fence”)), from Proto-West Germanic *skrank, from Proto-Germanic *skrankaz.

der

Jones caught the foul up against the screen.

A material woven from fine wires intended to block animals or large particles from passing while allowing gasses, liquids and finer particles to pass.

(baseball) The protective netting which protects the audience from flying objects

Definitions related to standing in the path of an opposing player

(American football) Short for screen pass.

skerm

viewing area of electronic output device

(basketball) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.

(cricket) An erection of white canvas or wood placed on the boundary opposite a batsman to make the ball more easily visible.


screen

en-verb

screen (third-person singular simple present screens, present participle screening, simple past and past participle screened)

screens (present singular third-person)
screening (participle present)
screened (participle past)
screened (past)

(basketball) To stand so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.


defensive field

en-noun

defensive field (plural defensive fields)

(cricket) A field set with fielders in positions designed to prevent runs rather than take wickets.


come out

en-verb

come out (third-person singular simple present comes out, present participle coming out, simple past came out, past participle come out)

comes out (present singular third-person)
coming out (participle present)
came out (past)
come out (participle past)

Nigerian Pidgin: komot

Sranan Tongo: komoto

(cricket, of a batsman) To walk onto the field at the beginning of an innings.


air raid

(American football) A passing-heavy offensive scheme based on a shotgun formation with four wide receivers and a single running back.


dot ball

Such a ball is recorded in the scorebook using a dot.

(cricket) A ball off which no runs are scored.


draw stumps

draw stumps (third-person singular simple present draws stumps, present participle drawing stumps, simple past drew stumps, past participle drawn stumps)

draws stumps (present singular third-person)
drawing stumps (participle present)
drew stumps (past)
drawn stumps (participle past)

From the game of cricket, where a day's play is terminated by the umpire drawing the stumps out of the ground.

(cricket, of the umpires) To declare an end to the day's play, and remove the bails and sometimes the stumps.


Duckworth-Lewis method

Devised by two English statisticians, Frank Duckworth and Tony Lewis.

The Duckworth-Lewis method of resolving rain-affected games has divided the cricketing fraternity into those who do not understand it and those who pretend they do. Rumour has it that it involves calculus, astrology, quantum mechanics and the use of dice. Either way teams get screwed.

2011, Shehan Karunatilaka, Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew, Jonathan Cape, page 195:

(cricket) A mathematical algorithm for generating revised target scores for the side batting second in a rain-affected one-day match.


dismissal

en-noun

dismissal (countable and uncountable, plural dismissals)

From dismiss + -al. A nineteenth-century coinage (modelled on committal etc.), replacing the regular form dismission.

(cricket) The event of a batsman getting out; a wicket.


drinks

(cricket) A short break in play to allow the players to have a drink, and for quick repairs to be made to equipment or the pitch.


cutter

From Middle English cutter, cuttere, kutter. By surface analysis, cut + -er.

(cricket) A ball that moves sideways in the air, or off the pitch, because it has been cut.


shank

From Middle English schanke, from Old English sċanca (“leg”), from Proto-West Germanic *skankō, from Proto-Germanic *skankô (compare West Frisian skonk, Low German Schanke, German Schenkel (“shank, leg”), Danish skank, Norwegian skank, Swedish skänkel), from *skankaz (compare Old Norse skakkr (“wry, crooked”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keng- (compare Middle Irish scingim (“I spring”), Ancient Greek σκάζω (skázō, “to limp”).

To a good golfer a shank is disgracefuller than being dead drunk or in jail.

1953, Arnold Gingrich, The Esquire Treasury:

(golf) A poorly played golf shot in which the ball is struck by the part of the club head that connects to the shaft.


shank

en-verb

shank (third-person singular simple present shanks, present participle shanking, simple past and past participle shanked)

shanks (present singular third-person)
shanking (participle present)
shanked (participle past)
shanked (past)

(transitive, golf) To misstrike the ball with the part of the club head that connects to the shaft.

Marouane Chamakh then spurned a great chance to kill the game off when he ran onto Andrey Arshavin's lofted through ball but shanked his shot horribly across the face of goal.

2011 September 28, Tom Rostance, “Arsenal 2 - 1 Olympiakos”, in BBC Sport:

(transitive, chiefly tennis, soccer, gridiron football) To hit or kick the ball in an unintended direction.


FA

Football Association
w:Football Association

(soccer) Initialism of Football Association, especially the English Football Association. See also Scottish FA and Welsh FA.


extra cover

(cricket) A fielding position on the off side, about 45° forward of square, between cover and mid off.


economy rate

(cricket) A bowler's statistic, being the average number of runs conceded per over.


defensive

en-adj

defensive (comparative more defensive, superlative most defensive)

more defensive (comparative)
most defensive (superlative)

From Middle French défensif. Morphologically defense + -ive.

(cricket) Of a bowling or fielding tactic designed to prevent the other side from scoring runs; of a batting tactic designed to prevent being out.


fielder

From Middle English feldere (“one who works in the field; rustic”), from Old English feldeware (“field-dweller”), equivalent to field + -er. The baseball sense is from 1832.

inh

(baseball, softball) A defensive player in the field.


fielder

(cricket) A player of the fielding side, whose task is to gather the ball after the batsman has hit it, to catch the batsman out, or to prevent him from scoring.


innings

en-noun

innings (plural innings or (rare) inningses)

innings (plural)
inningses (plural rare)

From the old verb inn (“to house corn”).

(cricket) One side's (from when the first player begins to bat, until the last player is out) or individual player's turn to bat or the runs scored during those durations.


dismiss

en-verb

dismiss (third-person singular simple present dismisses, present participle dismissing, simple past and past participle dismissed)

dismisses (present singular third-person)
dismissing (participle present)
dismissed (participle past)
dismissed (past)

Middle English, from Latin dimissus (“sent away, dismissed, banished”), perfect passive participle of dīmittō (“send away, dismiss”), from dis- + mittere (“to send”).

der

He was dismissed for 99 runs.

(transitive, cricket) To get a batsman out.

Kalinic later saw red for a rash tackle on Paul Scharner before Gabriel Tamas was dismissed for bringing down Diouf.

2010 December 28, Kevin Darlin, “West Brom 1-3 Blackburn”, in BBC:

(transitive, sports, soccer) To give someone a red card; to send off.


tourist

→ Albanian: turist

→ Armenian: տուրիստ (turist)

→ Asturian: turista

→ Azerbaijani: turist

→ Belarusian: турыст (turyst)

→ Catalan: turista

→ Czech: turista

→ Danish: turist

→ Dutch: toerist

→ Estonian: turist

→ Finnish: turisti

desctree

→ French: touriste
→ Persian: توریست (turist)
→ Italian: turista
→ Afar: tuurísti
→ Cimbrian: turist
→ Mòcheno: turist
→ Norman: touriste
→ Romanian: turist
→ Turkish: turist

→ Galician: turista

→ Georgian: ტურისტი (ṭurisṭi)

→ German: Tourist

→ Greek: τουρίστας (tourístas)

desc

→ Hindi: टूरिस्ट (ṭūrisṭ)

→ Hindi: टूरिस्ट (ṭūrisṭ)

→ Hungarian: turista

→ Indonesian: turis

→ Japanese: ツーリスト (tsūrisuto)

→ Kazakh: турист (turist)

→ Kyrgyz: турист (turist)

→ Latvian: tūrists

→ Lithuanian: turistas

→ Macedonian: турист (turist)

desctree

→ Norwegian: turist
→ Northern Sami: turista, durista

→ Occitan: torista

→ Polish: turysta

→ Portuguese: turista

→ Russian: турист (turist)

→ Serbo-Croatian: turist / турист

→ Slovak: turista

→ Slovene: turist

→ Spanish: turista
→ English: turista

→ Swedish: turist

→ Tagalog: turista

→ Turkmen: turist

→ Ukrainian: турист (turyst)

→ Uzbek: turist

→ Welsh: twrist

→ Yiddish: טוריסט (turist)

(sports, informal) A member of the visiting team in a match.


fall of wicket

The second fall of wicket was 250 runs.

(cricket) The side's total score when a particular batsman was out.


sundry

The adjective is derived from Middle English sondri, sondry, syndry (“individually; occasionally; separately; variously”) [and other forms], from Old English syndriġ (“alone, distinct, separate, single; sundry, various; concerning a single person, own, particular, peculiar, private; exceptional, remarkable, set apart, special; (distributive) one each”) [and other forms], from sundor (“differently; privately; separate, separately”) (from Proto-Germanic *sundraz (“alone, isolated; separate”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *senH- (“apart; for oneself; without”)) + -iġ (“suffix forming adjectives”). The English word is analysable as sunder + -y.
The noun and pronoun are derived from the adjective.
cognates
* Dutch zonderlijk (“separate”) (rare), Dutch afzonderlijk (“separate”)
* Low German sunderig (“single; special”)
* Middle High German sunderig (“private; separate; special”)
* Swedish söndrig (“broken; tattered”)

nb...

sindre, sindrey, sindri, sindrie, sindry, sondery, sondrẹ̄, sondree, sondrei, sondrey, sondrie, sondry, sondrye, sonndry, soondry, soundri, soundrie, soundry, sum-dri, sunderi, sundery, sundrei, sundrey, sundri, sundrie, sundrii, sundry, syndre, (Early Middle English) sindri, sindriȝ

nb...

sindrig, syndrie, syndryg, (Northumbria) suindrig

cog

The wicketkeeper for Williamstown had a bad day, as sundries topped the score with 30.

1954, Percy Taylor, Richmond’s 100 Years of Cricket: The Story of the Richmond Cricket Club, 1854–1954, South Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic,: C. G. Meehan & Co., →OCLC:

In the modern era I sometimes feel the emphasis has erroneously shifted towards placing unwarranted importance on how few sundries are recorded.

1969, Donald Bradman, The Art of Cricket, revised edition, London: Robson Books, published 1998, →ISBN, page 167:

As for sundries, these are very often caused by erratic bowling or a nasty pitch.

1999, Ashok Kumar, “Wicket-keeping”, in Cricket (DPH Sports Series), New Delhi: Discovery Publishing House, published 2006, →ISBN, page 145:

(chiefly Australia, cricket) Synonym of extra (“a run scored without the ball having hit the striker's bat”)


fast bowler

(cricket) A bowler who specialises in bowling the ball fast in cricket; as opposed to a spin bowler.


clearing

en-noun

clearing (countable and uncountable, plural clearings)

(soccer) The act of removing the ball from one's own goal area by kicking it.


farm the strike

en-verb

farm the strike (third-person singular simple present farms the strike, present participle farming the strike, simple past and past participle farmed the strike)

farms the strike (present singular third-person)
farming the strike (participle present)
farmed the strike (participle past)
farmed the strike (past)

(cricket) To deliberately either score runs or decline to score runs so as to allow the best batsman to face the majority of the balls as the striker.


strip

Brill Publishers
en:strip (disambiguation)

From alteration of stripe or from Middle Low German strippe, of uncertain ultimate origin, perhaps derived from a lost strong verb Proto-Germanic *strīpaną, with no clear cognates outside of Germanic except for Irish sríab (“line, stripe”).

(UK, soccer) The uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.


snicker

(cricket, rare) A player who snicks the ball.


corner

→ German: Corner

→ Japanese: コーナー (kōnā)

From Middle English corner, from Anglo-Norman cornere (compare Old French cornier, corniere (“corner”)), from Old French corne (“corner, angle”, literally “a horn, projecting point”), from Vulgar Latin *corna (“horn”), from Latin cornua, plural of cornū (“projecting point, end, horn”). The sense of "angle, corner" in Old French is not found in Latin or other Romance languages. It was possibly calqued from Frankish *hurnijā (“corner, angle”), which is similar to, and derived from *hurn, the Frankish word for "horn". Displaced native cognate Middle English hirn, herne, from Old English hyrne, from Proto-Germanic *hurnijǭ (“little horn, hook, angle, corner”), whence modern English hirn (“nook, corner”), itself related to horn.

nurkka

business: interest that is sufficient for price manipulation

The pitch was just off the corner, low and outside.

(heading) Relating to the playing field.

(baseball) One of the four vertices of the strike zone.

There are runners on the corners with just one out.

Relating to the playing field.
First base or third base.

Relating to the playing field.
A corner kick.

Relating to the playing field.
A cornerback.


corner

nl-noun

corner m (plural corners, diminutive cornertje n)

corners (plural)
cornertje (diminutive neuter)


corner

Unadapted borrowing from English corner.


corner

cornere (plural)
corner (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
cornerul (accusative definite nominative singular)
cornere (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
cornerele (accusative definite nominative plural)
corner (indefinite singular)
cornerului (definite singular)
cornere (indefinite singular)
cornerelor (definite plural)
cornerule (singular vocative)
cornerelor (vocative)

Borrowed from English corner or French corner.


ferro

Inherited from Old Catalan ferro~ferre~ferr, from Latin ferrum.

(golf) iron (a golf club used for middle-distance shots)


post

→ Bulgarian: пост (post) (Internet)

→ Chinese: po, PO

Cantonese: pou¹

Mandarin: pōu

Min Nan: pho͘

→ French: post

→ Irish: post

→ Italian: post

→ Malay: pos

→ Maori: pōhi

→ Polish: post

→ Portuguese: post

→ Russian: пост (post)

→ Scottish Gaelic: post

→ Spanish: post

→ Swahili: posta

→ Welsh: post

Borrowed from Middle French poste, from Italian posta (“stopping-place for coaches”), feminine of posto (“placed, situated”).

der

Two of the receivers ran post patterns.

(American football) A moderate to deep passing route in which a receiver runs 10-20 yards from the line of scrimmage straight down the field, then cuts toward the middle of the field (towards the facing goalposts) at a 45-degree angle.


inside out

In the sense thoroughly, an asyndetic clipping of inside and out.

He hit the ball inside out in an ugly manner, but scored a four.

(cricket) Describes the hitting of a ball that pitched outside of leg stump to the off side of the field.


fringe

From Middle English frenge, from Old French frenge, from Vulgar Latin *frimbia, a metathesis of Latin fimbriae (“fibers, threads, fringe”, plural), of uncertain origin. Compare German Franse and Danish frynse. Eclipsed native Middle English fnæd (“fringe”), Middle English byrd (“fringe”), Middle English fasel (“fringe”) from Old English fæs (“fringe”), and Old English fnæs (“fringe”). Doublet of fimbria.


field restriction

en-noun

field restriction (plural field restrictions)

(cricket) A rule governing the placement of fielders (within an oval drawn on the pitch) at certain times during the innings of a one-day match.


hurley

hurley (countable and uncountable, plural hurleys)

(countable) A stick used in the game of hurling.

(proscribed, uncountable) The game of hurling.


hurling

hurling (countable and uncountable, plural hurlings)

A Cornish street game resembling rugby, played with a silver ball.


nibble

en-verb

nibble (third-person singular simple present nibbles, present participle nibbling, simple past and past participle nibbled)

nibbles (present singular third-person)
nibbling (participle present)
nibbled (participle past)
nibbled (past)
nibble (infinitive)

The verb is derived from Late Middle English nebillen, nebyll (“to peck away at (something), nibble; (figurative) to attempt to sing (a part of a song)”); further etymology uncertain, possibly from Middle Low German nibbelen (“to eat in small bites, peck”) (modern German Low German nibbeln, gnibbeln, knibbeln), possibly a variant of knabbelen, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gnet- (“to press”) or imitative.
The noun is derived from the verb.
cognates
* Middle Dutch cnibbelen (modern Dutch knibbelen (“to gnaw; to murmur”), nibbelen (“to nibble”))
* Saterland Frisian nibje (“to nibble”)
* West Frisian knibbelje

der

(cricket, informal) Followed by at: of a batter: to make an indecisive attempt to bat a ball bowled outside the off stump.


relief

en-noun

relief (countable and uncountable, plural reliefs)

From Old French relief (“assistance”), from Old French relever (“to relieve”), from Latin relevare (“to raise up, make light”). See also relieve.

der

(golf) Permission for a player to move their ball to a more convenient spot before taking a shot, under certain circumstances.


bunker

→ Catalan: búnquer

desctree

→ German: Bunker
→ Polish: bunkier
→ Romanian: buncăr

The origin of the noun is uncertain; the earliest sense is sense 6.1 (“box or chest, the lid of which serves as a seat”), from Scots bunker (“bench; pew; window-seat; sand pit (especially in golf); coal receptacle; sleeping berth, bunk”), from Early Scots bunker, bunkur, bonker (“a chest or box, often serving as a seat”), probably from Old Norse bunki (“a heap”) (probably whence bunk (“sleeping berth in a ship, train, etc.”)), from Proto-Germanic *bunkô (“a heap, pile; a bump, lump, a crowd”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰenǵʰ- (“thick”) or *bʰeg- (“to billow, swell; to arch, bend, curve (?)”). Compare Middle Low German bunge (“drum, container”), Middle High German bunge (“drum”). Sense 1 (“hardened shelter designed to protect the inhabitants from falling bombs or other attacks”) was derived from German Bunker during World War II, which was itself from bunker (“large bin or container for storing coal”) (sense 5).
The verb is derived from the noun.

cog

[Letter X, page 204] At length I came within sight of them, three in number, where they sat cosily niched, into what you might call a bunker, a little sand-pit, dry and snug, and surrounded by its banks, and a screen of whins in full bloom. […] [Letter XI, page 223] And are ye in the wont of drawing up wi' all the gangrel bodies that ye meet on the high road, or find cowering in a sand-bunker upon the links?

1824 June, [Walter Scott], “Letter X. Darsie Latimer to Alan Fairford.”; “Letter XI. The Same to the Same.”, in Redgauntlet, […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, pages 204 and 223:

(golf) A hazard on a golf course consisting of a sand-filled hollow.


bunker

en-verb

bunker (third-person singular simple present bunkers, present participle bunkering, simple past and past participle bunkered)

bunkers (present singular third-person)
bunkering (participle present)
bunkered (participle past)
bunkered (past)

попадам в пясъчника

to hit (a golf ball) into a bunker; to place (a golfer) in the position of having a golf ball in a bunker

(transitive, golf) To hit (a golf ball) into a bunker; (chiefly passive voice) to place (a golfer) in the position of having a golf ball in a bunker.

Proteus. Or we resign and tell the country that we cant carry on the King's Government under conditions which destroy our responsibility. / Balbus. Thatll do it. He couldnt face that. / Crassus. Yes: thatll bunker him.

1928 December (date written), [George] Bernard Shaw, The Apple Cart: A Political Extravaganza, London: Constable and Company, published 1930, →OCLC, Act I, page 18:

(idiomatic, UK, informal) To place (someone) in a position that is difficult to get out of; to hinder.


bunker

nl-noun

bunker m (plural bunkers, diminutive bunkertje n)

bunkers (plural)
bunkertje (diminutive neuter)

→ Indonesian: bunker

(golf) bunker (hole with a surface of sand or dirt, placed on a golf course as a barrier)


bunker

bunkeren (definite singular)
bunkere (indefinite plural)
bunkerne (definite plural)


bunker

bunkeren (definite singular)
bunkerar (indefinite plural)
bunkerane (definite plural)


bunker

bunker (indefinite nominative singular)
bunkers (genitive indefinite singular)
bunkern (definite nominative singular)
bunkerns (definite genitive singular)
bunkrar (indefinite nominative plural)
bunkrars (genitive indefinite plural)
bunkrarna (definite nominative plural)
bunkrarnas (definite genitive plural)


assist

From Middle English assisten, from Old French assister (“to assist, to attend”), from Latin assistō (“stand at, bestand”, verb).

der

Özil has 16 assists in the Premier League and three goals; he has two more goals in the Champions League. On Monday, he took Bournemouth apart in the 2-0 win at the Emirates Stadium, setting up the first for Gabriel and scoring the second himself.

2016 January 1, David Hytner, “Mesut Özil has Arsenal daring to dream of Premier League glory”, in The Guardian:

(sports) The act of helping another player score points or goals

(soccer) A decisive pass made to the goal scorer

асистенция

statistical recognition of making a pass

assist

(soccer): a pass that is decisive in scoring a goal

He had two assists in the game.

(baseball) A defensive play, allowing a teammate to record a putout.


howitzer

Borrowed from Dutch houwitser, from German Haubitze, from Middle High German haufniz, from Czech houfnice, which was derived from houf (“flock, crowd”) + -nice. The Czech noun houf comes from Middle High German hufe (“heap”), from Old High German hūfo.

Belgium took a little while to catch Scotland with the first of the howitzer blows, but when the first one landed there was a certainty of more. Many more.

2018 September 7, Tom English, “Scotland 0-4 Belgium”, in BBC Sport:

(sports, rugby, ice hockey) A powerfully hit shot.


condor

→ Welsh: condor

→ Korean: 콘도르 (kondoreu)

From Spanish cóndor, from Classical Quechua kuntur. The change /t/ to /d/ was charactersitic of the "coastal" variety of the language.

(golf) The completion of a hole four strokes under par (a quadruple birdie, triple eagle, or double albatross).


scrum

French: scrum

Either a back-formation from or an apocopic form of scrummage, a variant of scrimmage.

en:all the forwards joined together in an organised way

(rugby) In rugby union or rugby league, all the forwards joined together in an organised way.

uztartze

(rugby) all the forwards joined together in an organised way


scrum

en-verb

scrum (third-person singular simple present scrums, present participle scrumming, simple past and past participle scrummed)

scrums (present singular third-person)
scrumming (participle present)
scrummed (participle past)
scrummed (past)


scrum

nl-noun

scrum m (plural scrums, diminutive scrummetje n)

scrums (plural)
scrummetje (diminutive neuter)


pickle

en-noun

pickle (countable and uncountable, plural pickles)

→ Dutch: pickles

→ French: pickles

→ Irish: picil

→ Korean: 피클 (pikeul)

→ Portuguese: picles

→ Spanish: pickles, picle

→ Welsh: picil

From Middle English pikel (“spicy sauce served with meat or fish”), borrowed from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German pekel (“brine”). Cognate with Scots pikkill (“salt liquor, brine”), Saterland Frisian Piekele (“pickle, brine”), Dutch pekel (“pickle, brine”), Low German pekel, peckel, pickel, bickel (“pickle, brine”), German Pökel (“pickle, brine”).

cog

Jones was caught in a pickle between second and third.


haul

From Middle English hālen, hailen, haulen, halien (“to drag, pull; to draw up”), from Old French haler (“to haul, pull”), from Frankish *halōn (“to drag, fetch, haul”) or Middle Dutch halen (“to drag, fetch, haul”), possibly merging with Old English *halian (“to haul, drag”); all from Proto-Germanic *halōną, *halēną, *hulōną (“to call, fetch, summon”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“to call, cry, summon”). The noun is derived from the verb.
Cognates
The word is cognate with Danish hale (“to haul”), Middle Dutch halen (“to draw, fetch, haul”), Dutch halen (“to fetch, bring, haul”), Old Frisian halia, Saterland Frisian halen (“to draw, haul, pull”), Low German halen (“to draw, pull”), Old High German halôn, holôn, German holen (“to fetch, get”), Norwegian hale (“to haul”), Old Saxon halôn (“to fetch, get”), Swedish hala (“to hale, haul, pull, tug”), and related to Old English ġeholian (“to get, obtain”).

cog

Four goals scored by a single player in a match can be described as a 'haul', while five goals is unofficially a 'glut'.

2020 October 23, “What is a brace in soccer?”, in Goal:

(British, soccer) Four goals scored by one player in a game.


tweaker

From tweak + -er; the drug addict sense derives from the slang term tweak for methamphetamines, in reference to the punding behavior of addicts.


ECB

England and Wales Cricket Board
w:England and Wales Cricket Board

(cricket) Initialism of England and Wales Cricket Board, the governing body for the sport in England and Wales.


putting

en-noun

putting (usually uncountable, plural puttings)

(golf) A variety of golf in which balls are tapped into holes over short distances using a putter.


zone

→ Korean: 존 (jon)

→ Punjabi: ਜ਼ੋਨ (zon)

From Latin zōna, from Ancient Greek ζώνη (zṓnē, “girdle, belt”).

der

That pitch was low and away, just outside the zone.

The defender playing at the top of the zone is nine to fourteen metres out from the goal line.

1974, Franko Blazic with Zorko Soric, Team Handball, page 31:

(handball) A semicircular area in front of each goal.

(basketball, American football) A defensive scheme where defenders guard a particular area of the court or field, as opposed to a particular opposing player.


fifth slip

(cricket) The slip fielding position beyond the fourth slip.


finger spin

left arm orthodox spin
left arm orthodox spin

(cricket) A style of bowling in which the bowler imparts spin to the ball by running his fingers down its side as he releases it; off spin for a right handed bowler and left arm orthodox spin for a left-handed one.


first slip

(cricket) The slip fielding position closest to the wicket keeper


fine leg

en-noun

fine leg (countable and uncountable, plural fine legs)

(cricket, uncountable) A fielding position on the leg side, behind square and near the boundary.

(cricket, countable) The fielder in that position.


first session

(cricket) The session of a day's play between start of play and lunch.


caddie

The noun is borrowed from Scots caddie (“military cadet; young man; ragamuffin; person engaged to run errands; person hired to assist a golfer”), from French cadet (“army cadet; younger sibling”), from capdet (“captain; chief”) (Gascony, archaic), from Late Latin capitettum, from Latin caput (“head”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“head”). Doublet of cadel, cadet, capital, capitellum, caudillo, and Kadet.
The verb is derived from the noun.

doublet

As caddy I had to carry the clubs, for there are four varieties almost everyone used, and some used more. Besides doing this, the caddy has to keep score of the number of strokes used, and watch and find each ball.

1897 (date written), Paul T. B. Ward, quotee, “19th Hole: The Readers Take Over”, in Sports Illustrated, volume 19, number 4, Chicago, Ill.: Time Inc., published 22 July 1963, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 60:

Then Carter Chapman picked out his putter, stepped confidently up to the ball, sighted once along the ground, and made his stroke. The ball rolled straight as a die toward the caddy who was holding the flag, and tinkled into the cup for a birdie three!

1921 March, Octavus Roy Cohen, “Follow Through”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LXXII, number 2, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], →OCLC, page 370, column 1:

(by extension, golf, also attributively) A person hired to assist a golfer by carrying their golf clubs and providing advice.


caddie

en-verb

caddie (third-person singular simple present caddies, present participle caddying or caddieing, simple past and past participle caddied)

caddies (present singular third-person)
caddying (participle present)
caddieing (participle present)
caddied (participle past)
caddied (past)

We took turns caddying, one caddying, two playing. We went out across the river to the teeing ground of the first hole.

The next day the thirty-two qualifying players were paired off into sixteen sets of opponents. Charlotte was matched against a girl from California. After the first few minutes, the result was never in doubt. "Take it easy, miss," said the highly gratified Mr. Ogilvie, who was caddying for Charlotte. "You hold her in the hollow of your hand."

1917 July, George Weston, chapter VI, in The Apple-tree Girl: The Story of Little Miss Moses, who Led Herself into the Promised Land, Philadelphia, Pa., London: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, published 1918, →OCLC, page 100:

The scheme had been, if I remember, that after lunch I should go off and caddy for Honoria on a shopping tour down Regent Street; but when she got up and started collecting me and the rest of her things, Aunt Agatha stopped her.

1923 May 17, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “Introducing Claude and Eustace”, in The Inimitable Jeeves, Harmondsworth, Middlesex [London]: Penguin Books, published 1979, →ISBN, page 63:

(intransitive, golf) Chiefly followed by for: to serve as a caddie (noun sense 2) for a golfer.


caddie

caddie (indefinite nominative singular)
caddies (genitive indefinite singular)
caddien (definite nominative singular)
caddiens (definite genitive singular)
caddies (indefinite nominative plural)
caddier (indefinite nominative plural)
caddies (genitive indefinite plural)
caddiers (genitive indefinite plural)
caddierna (definite nominative plural)
caddiernas (definite genitive plural)


session

→ Japanese: セッション (sesshon)

→ Korean: 세션 (sesyeon)

→ Scottish Gaelic: seisean

From Middle English session, from Old French session, from Latin sessiō (“a sitting”), from sedeō (“sit”).

(cricket) Any of the three scheduled two hour playing sessions, from the start of play to lunch, from lunch to tea and from tea to the close of play.


first class

(cricket) Of or relating to a first class match.

első osztályú

cricket: relating to a first class match


stringere

it-verb

strìngere (first-person singular present strìngo, first-person singular past historic strìnsi, past participle strétto, auxiliary avére)

strìngere (canonical)
strìngo (first-person present singular)
strìnsi (first-person historic past singular)
strétto (participle past)
avére (auxiliary)
strìngere (infinitive)
avére (auxiliary)
stringèndo (gerund)
stringènte (participle present)
strétto (participle past)
strìngo (first-person indicative present singular)
strìngi (indicative present second-person singular)
strìnge (indicative present singular third-person)
stringiàmo (first-person indicative plural present)
stringéte (indicative plural present second-person)
strìngono (indicative plural present third-person)
stringévo (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
stringévi (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
stringéva (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
stringevàmo (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
stringevàte (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
stringévano (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
strìnsi (first-person historic indicative past singular)
stringésti (historic indicative past second-person singular)
strìnse (historic indicative past singular third-person)
stringémmo (first-person historic indicative past plural)
stringéste (historic indicative past plural second-person)
strìnsero (historic indicative past plural third-person)
stringerò (first-person future indicative singular)
stringerài (future indicative second-person singular)
stringerà (future indicative singular third-person)
stringerémo (first-person future indicative plural)
stringeréte (future indicative plural second-person)
stringerànno (future indicative plural third-person)
stringerèi (conditional first-person singular)
stringerésti (conditional second-person singular)
stringerèbbe (conditional singular third-person)
stringerébbe (conditional singular third-person)
stringerémmo (conditional first-person plural)
stringeréste (conditional plural second-person)
stringerèbbero (conditional plural third-person)
stringerébbero (conditional plural third-person)
strìnga (first-person present singular subjunctive)
strìnga (present second-person singular subjunctive)
strìnga (present singular subjunctive third-person)
stringiàmo (first-person plural present subjunctive)
stringiàte (plural present second-person subjunctive)
strìngano (plural present subjunctive third-person)
stringéssi (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
stringéssi (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
stringésse (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
stringéssimo (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
stringéste (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
stringéssero (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
strìngi (imperative second-person singular)
strìnga (formal imperative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
stringiàmo (first-person imperative plural)
stringéte (imperative plural second-person)
strìngano (formal imperative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
strìngere (imperative negative second-person singular)
strìnga (formal imperative negative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
stringiàmo (first-person imperative negative plural)
stringéte (imperative negative plural second-person)
strìngano (formal imperative negative plural second-person-semantically third-person)

From Latin stringere, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *streyg-.

(intransitive, sports, especially soccer) to move to the center, towards the goal; to centralize by converging towards the midfield or the opponent's goal [auxiliary avere]


MLS

Coordinate term: MLB

Major League Soccer
w:Major League Soccer

(soccer, US) Initialism of Major League Soccer, the top league of men's soccer in the US.


WS

en-noun

WS (countable and uncountable, plural WSs)

(baseball) Initialism of World Series, a best of seven game series played annually to determine the championship of United States professional baseball.


five-for

(cricket) The feat of a bowler taking five wickets in one innings


full toss

(cricket) A ball that does not bounce on the pitch before reaching the batsman.


fourth slip

(cricket) A fielding position to the off side of the third slip.


follow on

en-verb

follow on (third-person singular simple present follows on, present participle following on, simple past and past participle followed on)

follows on (present singular third-person)
following on (participle present)
followed on (participle past)
followed on (past)

(cricket, of a team) To bat their second innings immediately after their first innings.


French cut

(cricket) A batsman's shot in which the ball deflects off the inside edge of the bat and travels fine down the leg side behind the batsman and often travels to the boundary.


Hawk-Eye

From hawk + eye, a reference to the bird of prey's noted eyesight.

(cricket, tennis) A system, using six static television cameras and sophisticated computing, to track the path of the ball in flight.


good length

(cricket) The area on a pitch considered to be the best place to pitch the ball in order to either get the batsman out, or restrict him from scoring; the length at which the ball bounces just too far away for it to be comfortably played either on the front foot or the back foot.


grubber

England had an early opportunity with a line-out deep in French territory after a clever grubber from Foden only for Lionel Nallet to burgle back possession, and they then tore into France again as Alexis Palisson was smashed backwards after taking a garryowen and Manu Tuilagi thundered into Morgan Parra.

2011, Tom Fordyce, Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France:

Take that brilliant backline move off a scrum when Kolbe came off his left wing to put in a neat grubber for Arendse on the right wing to almost round the defense in the corner.

2023 October 28, Leighton Koopman, “YES!!! The Springboks beat the All Blacks to win another Rugby World Cup title”, in Independent Online:

(rugby) An attacking short-distance kick in behind the defence in which the ball is bounced along the ground, using the uneven bounce of the ball to make it difficult for the defence to retrieve.

(cricket) A ball that bounces unusually low such that it is difficult for the batsman to hit properly.


crank

From Dutch or Low German krank, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *krank, from Proto-Germanic *krangaz, *krankaz (“bent; weak”). Cognate with Scots crank, krank, German krank (“sick”).

(archaic, baseball, slang, 1800s) A baseball fan.


gobble

From Middle English gobben (“to drink or swallow greedily”), of uncertain origin + -le (frequentative suffix). Middle English gobben is perhaps an alteration of Middle English globben (“to gulp down”), related to English gulpen (“to gulp”). However, compare also French gober.

der

(golf) A rapid straight putt so strongly played that, if the ball had not gone into the hole, it would have gone a long way past.


Bunsen

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Bunsen.wav

(cricket, informal, rhyming slang) A turner (a pitch on which the ball turns easily).


gully

→ French: gollé

→ German: Gully

Origin uncertain. Possibly from a variant of Middle English golet (“esophagus, gullet”), from Old French goulet, from Latin gula (“throat”). Shift in meaning in Middle English to "water channel, ravine" may have been influenced by Middle English gylle, gille, galle (“deep narrow valley, ravine”); see gill.
Alternatively, from a diminutive of dialectal gull (“fissue, chasm”) + -y (diminutive suffix). See gull, gullick.

unc

uncertain

inh

(cricket) A fielding position on the off side about 30 degrees behind square, between the slips and point; a fielder in such a position


Grand Slam

(British, soccer) winning in each of the three UEFA cups - UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League and Cup Winners' Cup (defunct).

(tennis) The four biggest competitions of the year: Wimbledon, the French Open, Australian Open and the US Open

(rugby) Victory in every game in the Six Nations competition between England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, France and Italy

(rugby) Victory by a Southern Hemisphere national team over all of the Home Nations—England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland—in a single tour

(golf) The four (or five) biggest competitions of the year; see Grand Slam (golf) on Wikipedia.

(Philippines, basketball) winning in each of the three Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) tournaments, each called locally a conference, in a season; see Grand Slam (PBA) on Wikipedia.


grand slam

(baseball) The hitting of a home run with the bases loaded.

gran eslam

(baseball) a home run with the bases loaded


handled the ball

(cricket) Describing a way of getting out in which the batsman deliberately touches the ball with the hand not holding the bat.


half volley

(cricket) A delivery that bounces just short of the blockhole


conversion

en-noun

conversion (countable and uncountable, plural conversions)

From Middle English conversion, conversioun, borrowed from Anglo-Norman conversion, from Latin conversiō, from convertō.

обръщане

the act of having converted something or someone

המרת דת

to replace one religious faith with another

(rugby) A free kick, after scoring a try, worth two points.

(American football) An extra point (or two) scored by kicking a field goal or carrying the ball into the end zone after scoring a touchdown.