英语词汇“to pitch the wickets”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P3. Cricket. to pitch the wickets (also stumps): to erect the wickets by driving the stumps into the ground, and (in later use) placing the bails, in readiness for the start of play.Probably originally from sense 2, but later also associated with the more general sense of ‘placing’ (sense 4a) and now often used allusively with reference to the start of play.The lines cited below are from a short poem dated c1680 by Waghorn in Dawn of Cricket (1906) p. 3 (and later by others), but no text of this date has been found: All you that do delight in Cricket Come to Marden, Pitch your wickets.

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to pitch the wickets (also stumps)1732

1732 Daily Jrnl. 3 July The Wickets are to be pitch'd at One o'Clock.

1735 London Evening-post 12 July The Stumps were immediately pitch'd.

1776 Morning Chron. 19 July The wickets were pitched at eleven o'clock on Monday, and the game was not decided till Wednesday afternoon.

1803 Laws of Cricket 5 The Party which goes from home shall have..the pitching of the wickets, which shall be pitched within thirty yards of a centre fixed by the adversaries.

1866 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. 327 The wickets had better be pitched without loss of time.

1931 Times 15 June 5/4 The umpires had no option but to pitch stumps again, and the two not-out batsmen marched back to the wickets.

1988 R. Basu Hours before Dawn vii. 69 The wickets were pitched again, the stakes put back.

1998 Evening Chron. (Newcastle) (Nexis) 22 May 60 Once the stumps are pitched I know that both teams will be going all out for victory.

单词	to pitch the wickets
释义	> as lemmas to pitch the wickets (also stumps) P3. Cricket. to pitch the wickets (also stumps): to erect the wickets by driving the stumps into the ground, and (in later use) placing the bails, in readiness for the start of play.Probably originally from sense 2, but later also associated with the more general sense of ‘placing’ (sense 4a) and now often used allusively with reference to the start of play.The lines cited below are from a short poem dated c1680 by Waghorn in Dawn of Cricket (1906) p. 3 (and later by others), but no text of this date has been found: All you that do delight in Cricket Come to Marden, Pitch your wickets. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > play cricket [verb (intransitive)] > set up wicket to pitch the wickets (also stumps)1732 1732 Daily Jrnl. 3 July The Wickets are to be pitch'd at One o'Clock. 1735 London Evening-post 12 July The Stumps were immediately pitch'd. 1776 Morning Chron. 19 July The wickets were pitched at eleven o'clock on Monday, and the game was not decided till Wednesday afternoon. 1803 Laws of Cricket 5 The Party which goes from home shall have..the pitching of the wickets, which shall be pitched within thirty yards of a centre fixed by the adversaries. 1866 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. 327 The wickets had better be pitched without loss of time. 1931 Times 15 June 5/4 The umpires had no option but to pitch stumps again, and the two not-out batsmen marched back to the wickets. 1988 R. Basu Hours before Dawn vii. 69 The wickets were pitched again, the stakes put back. 1998 Evening Chron. (Newcastle) (Nexis) 22 May 60 Once the stumps are pitched I know that both teams will be going all out for victory. extracted from pitchv.² < as lemmas
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