单词 | half thirty |
释义 | > as lemmashalf thirty half thirty n. Real Tennis and Tennis (now rare) a handicap of one stroke or point in every odd game and two points in every even game. Π 1775 C. Jones Hoyle's Games Improved 218 Half-thirty, is Fifteen given the first Game, and Thirty the second; and so on to the whole Thirty, Forty, &c. 1875 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 40/2 Half thirty is alternately one stroke and two strokes. 1919 Amer. Lawn Tennis 15 Mar. 423/3 ‘Half-thirty’, similarly, is an alternation of two points and one. 1950 Times 7 Mar. 10/5 Your Correspondent has never seen Crawley play within half thirty of the form he showed and kept throughout. < as lemmas |
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