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单词 break back
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to break back
b. In Cricket. A ball bowled is said to break when it changes its course after it has pitched: the bowler causes this by his delivery. It is said to break back when it breaks in from the off, to break in, when it breaks from the leg side.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > bowling > bowl [verb (intransitive)] > motion of ball
to make haste?a1475
twist?1801
cut1816
shoot1816
curl1833
hang1838
work1838
break1847
spin1851
turn1851
bump1856
bite1867
pop1871
swerve1894
to kick up1895
nip1899
swing1900
google1907
move1938
seam1960
to play (hit, etc.) across the line1961
1847 W. Denison Cricketer's Compan. 1846 p. xix The tendency of his bowling is to make the ball break back from the ‘off’, to the ‘leg’.
1866 ‘Capt. R. Crawley’ Cricket 36 A..ball breaking in from the leg-side.
1882 Daily Tel. 17 May Clean bowled by a trimmer from Barnes, the ball apparently breaking back.
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to break back
b. To make a dash; to set off at a run. So to break back: to set off running in a reverse direction. U.S., Australian, and New Zealand.
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the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > going swiftly on foot > go swiftly on foot [verb (intransitive)] > run > start running
to take head1674
to take off1815
break1834
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > backward movement > move backwards [verb (intransitive)] > turn back or reverse course
turnc1275
to turn aboutc1330
repeata1382
to turn againc1384
to turn backc1425
re-turn1483
resore1486
to turn the backc1540
to turn round1560
to set back1803
resile1887
to break back1933
1834 D. Crockett Narr. Life ii. 11 He gathered about a two year old hickory, and broke after me.
1834 D. Crockett Narr. Life xiv. 96 When my lead dog..raised his yell, all the rest broke to him.
1835 A. B. Longstreet Georgia Scenes 125 The way she [sc. a horse] now broke for Springfield ‘is nothing to nobody’.
1883 ‘M. Twain’ Life on Mississippi xxviii. 300 If your boat got away from you, on a black night, and broke for the woods, it was an anxious time with you.
1889 A. Reischek Story of Wonderful Dog vi. 34 If the sheep broke he ordered a second dog to assist.
1892 Congress. Rec. Jan. 655/2 When a man is working for wages in the hot harvest field there is nothing more delightful to him than a little fall of rain which will drive him in. So these harvesters broke for the barn.
1907 S. E. White Arizona Nights (U.K. ed.) v. 98 The cattle would attempt to ‘break’ past the end and up the valley.
1933 E. Jones Autobiogr. Early Settler xii. 59 If a mob [of sheep]..broke back,..the rest of us would have to wait while the shepherd on whose beat the sheep had broken back, went for them.
1946 F. D. Davison Dusty ix. 96 With the dogs so far forward, the rearmost sheep..had a chance to break back.
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