单词 | county team |
释义 | > as lemmascounty team C5. Chiefly British. attributive, with the sense ‘of or relating to county level sport’, as county championship, county cricketer, county team, etc.Chiefly with reference to cricket; cf. county cricket n. at Compounds 7. ΚΠ 1791 Public Advertiser 22 June It will appear laughable enough in the annals of cricket, and we presume not much to the credit of the county players. 1835 Brighton Patriot 1 Sept. The nonpareil bowler, who has added to the laurels of the County cricketers so often, was, upon this occasion, the unlucky instrument of those laurels being plucked from their brows. 1882 Morning Post 22 Aug. 3/5 If his delivery is not fair he should not be allowed to help Lancashire to win the county championship. 1911 P. F. Warner Bk. of Cricket ii. 55 It is impossible to go in first and not meet with a ‘swerver’; for every county team possesses one. 1954 Manch. Guardian 7 Oct. 10/6 The county team beat The Rest by three goals, one penalty goal, and five tries. 2009 M. Hoggard Hoggy (2010) 131 The ECB have been trying to make sure that county cricketers are in better shape. < as lemmas |
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