单词 | ground-staff |
释义 | > as lemmasground-staff b. Cricket. (a) The space on which the game is played; (b) the space within which a player may lawfully stand while taking a particular part in the game; the (also his, etc.) ground, (of a batter) = the ground behind the popping-crease; (c) the paid staff of players attached to a club (also ground-staff). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > cricket ground > [noun] ground1718 cricket ground1745 cricket field1760 field1816 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > cricket ground > [noun] > place where player may stand ground1775 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > cricketer > [noun] > paid staff of players the (also his, etc.) ground1850 ground-staff1880 1718 Weekly Jrnl. 6 Sept. Three of their Men made an Elopement, and got off the Ground without going in. 1733 London Evening-post 20 Sept. There will be a Line around the Ground as usual, within which none but the Gamesters are to be admitted. 1775 New Articles Game of Cricket 4 The Strikers need not keep within their Ground till the Umpire has called Play. 1795 S. Britcher Compl. List Grand Matches Cricket 34 This rule is not meant..to prevent the Bowler from filling up holes, watering his ground, or using sawdust, &c., when the ground is wet. 1850 ‘Bat’ Cricketer's Man. (rev. ed.) 78 The..players of ‘the Ground’..act in the..capacity of..umpire. 1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days ii. viii. 388 He is never in his ground, except when his wicket is down. 1880 James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Ann. ii. i. 49 The ground staff for 1879 at Lord's consisted of [the twenty-two professional players named]. 1882 Daily Tel. 27 May His colleague driving the ball into his wicket whilst he was just out of the ground. 1894 Times 23 Mar. 10/2 There are various additions to the ground staff... The list of ‘the ground’ is now as follows. 1955 T. H. Pear Eng. Social Differences xi. 260 Boys of outstanding promise [at cricket] can receive coaching if they take jobs on a club ground-staff. < as lemmas |
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