leg bailn.2
/ˈlɛɡ beɪl/, U.S. /ˈlɛɡ ˌbeɪl/ Cricket.
The bail (bail n.4 2) which rests across the top of the middle and leg stumps.
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1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days 392 Such a ball, three-quarters length and coming straight for his leg bail.
1882 Daily Tel. 27 May The new-comer..immediately afterwards had his leg-bail removed.
1934 Observer 27 May 28/1 [Ebeling] bowled Price middle stump and with the next ball removed Hulme's leg bail.
2015 West Austral. (Perth) (Nexis) 9 Feb. 59 Bancroft's solidity..was undone by Joe Mennie, who managed to get an off-cutter to tickle the leg bail.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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