(n.) One who plays at bowls, or who rolls the ball in cricket or any other game.
Example Sentences:
(1) The TV ad campaign features the Sapeurs – men who make the transformation from farmers, taxi drivers and labourers to cigar-wielding gentlemen dressed to the nines in bowler hats and tailored suits – of the Republic of the Congo capital Brazzaville coming together after a day's work.
(2) All the bowlers had a relative tachycardia 15 min before the competition which was abolished by oxprenolol.
(3) I'd suggest: A formal warning, then if repeated the player is: (i) barred from bowling again in the session, if a bowler; (ii) barred from fielding close to (i.e.
(4) It's short and pitched well outside off stump; Tuffey attempts to drive it through the covers but his stroke is far too weak and the ball loops into the bowler's hands.
(5) When the famous Rivels clowns recently came to a leading Berlin music-hall with their act, which used to include a parody of Charlie Chaplin, the clown who played the mock Charlie abandoned his little moustache and bowler and appeared in another disguise.
(6) Hereditary factors, poor technique, overuse, and poor preparation for fast bowling may combine to produce the 'at risk' bowler.
(7) The bowlers whose bowling performance was improved by oxprenolol exhibited significantly higher heart rates before, during and after the competition as compared with the subgroups not responding beneficially to the active drug.
(8) A ferocious interior lineman who has drawn comparison with Houston's JJ Watt, Floyd will help compensate for the departure of seven-time Pro Bowler Richard Seymour.
(9) But most of the 57 rooms in this renovated 19th-century chapel have their quota of Belgian weirdness, from the bowler hat lampshades in the Magritte room to the giant Smurf mural in the Comics Room.
(10) Berry Theatre , Southampton, Thu; Bowler Hat , EC4, Fri Monty Python Live (Mostly): One Down, Five To Go, London Despite being one of the most eagerly awaited dates in 2014's comedy calendar, one big mystery still surrounds this live reunion of the surviving Pythons: will it be any good?
(11) Some slow bowlers can induce the batsman to misjudge where the ball will hit the ground.
(12) 7.31pm GMT Here's a by-no-means-comprehensive summary of the big transfer news today so far: Manchester City haven't bought anyone, have shut the office, and gone home Manchester United haven't bought anyone, have shut the office, and gone home, via the offy for a four-pack and 20 tabs Liverpool haven't bought anyone, but are in a flat spin, attempting to persuade Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk winger Yevhen Konoplyanka to join the club Arsenal have signed Kim Källström on loan, but have given up on Julian Draxler Fulham have landed Greek striker Konstantinos Mitroglou, while Dimitar Berbatov is off to Monaco Cardiff City have signed Wilfried Zaha on loan and Fabio for good Lee Cattermole and Tom Ince could go to Stoke Ince might go to Crystal Palace, though and best of all Southampton's Dani Osvaldo has joined Juventus, turning up in Turin wearing a bowler hat.
(13) I also think it's harsh on the bowlers, but agree that the fields, lines and lengths could be more attacking.
(14) Sachitra Senanayake, the off-spinner who has been Sri Lanka’s most successful and economical bowler in the one-day series against England, has been reported for bowling with a suspect action during Saturday’s victory at Lord’s .
(15) But it is another thing to convince the base," said Professor Shaun Bowler, a political scientist at the University of California at Riverside.
(16) "The bowlers did very well and bowled in the right areas on the first day, but the conditions were helpful to them," said Smith.
(17) Instagram photos showed them tramping around New York, bowler hatted and hand in hand.
(18) In our series, no polyp was found to exhibit the bowler hat sign, while 12 cases of diverticular disease displayed 1 or more "bowler hats."
(19) The Essex bowler Mervyn Westfield is due in court in January, charged with the same offences as the Pakistan players, but the police seem minded – in the main – to leave it to sport.
(20) There's a vague commitment to keeping London competitive as a financial centre, because that's in everyone's interest, but that's as close to esprit de corps as you get.” Hard Times interactive Interactive graphic : the divisive toll of the economic slump The esprit de corps of the old bowler-hatted public-school City of the 1960s and 70s has gone.
Wicket
Definition:
(n.) A small gate or door, especially one forming part of, or placed near, a larger door or gate; a narrow opening or entrance cut in or beside a door or gate, or the door which is used to close such entrance or aperture. Piers Plowman.
(n.) A small gate by which the chamber of canal locks is emptied, or by which the amount of water passing to a water wheel is regulated.
(n.) A small framework at which the ball is bowled. It consists of three rods, or stumps, set vertically in the ground, with one or two short rods, called bails, lying horizontally across the top.
(n.) The ground on which the wickets are set.
(n.) A place of shelter made of the boughs of trees, -- used by lumbermen, etc.
(n.) The space between the pillars, in postand-stall working.
Example Sentences:
(1) Were it the latter, you'd think he'd change the angle, either by moving across the crease or going around the wicket, because it's clear his man won't be tempted.
(2) He was never an intellectual; at Oxford, he did no work, and was proudest of playing squash and cricket for the university, though against Cambridge at Lord's he failed to take a wicket and made a duck.
(3) 1.59pm BST 32nd over: Sri Lanka 89-2 (Jayawardene 11, Sangakkara 22) A jaffa from Plunkett from round the wicket beats Sangakkara all ends up – it was angled in on middle stump, then seamed away to beat the outside edge.
(4) He drove beautifully, picked off the short balls square of the wicket, clipped off his toes and scarcely put a foot wrong.
(5) The scoring, of singles at least, has quickened since Prior arrived at the wicket - I wonder whether, if, the rate is still roughly four, with 20 to go and with these two still in, they too might start to wonder.
(6) The 21-year-old England Lions seamer took 11 wickets in a match for the first time and also contributed 81 with the bat to give his side victory by 95 runs after less than two hours' play on the third morning.
(7) Patel decided this match with a fine spell of left-arm spin, which claimed three important wickets for 21 runs from seven overs.
(8) New Zealand 38-3 Styris c Dravid b Nehra 15 An important wicket this.
(9) Broad lbw b Herath 0 (England 228-9) Herath comes round the wicket to Broad in an attempt to stop him padding up.
(10) Neil Carter grabbed the last wicket of Coles to give the rejuvenated South African five for 60 in Kent's second innings, but Chris Woakes was the Bears' match-winner with match figures of 11 for 97 from 29 overs, in addition to two crucial contributions with the bat.
(11) He batted rather well, too, scoring only 19 but playing a sensible supporting role to allow Paul Franks, Andre Adams and Luke Fletcher to throw the bat as Notts added 84 for their last three wickets after Steven Mullaney had gone in the first over to Liam Plunkett.
(12) Start talking wickets to them and, well, you'll hear crickets.
(13) 4.07pm BST 56th over: Sri Lanka 187-5 (Sangakkara 71, Chandimal 11) Jordan in Chandimal, who gets very square in defence - perfect for a Headingley dismissal, caught behind the wicket.
(14) Warwickshire have beaten Kent, but only after a last-wicket stand of 67 between Martin van Jaarsveld and Matthew Coles that may have had a few Bears buttocks clenching.
(15) This pattern is most prominent in early drowsiness, and may change to rhythmical spiky discharges in light NREM sleep ("wicket spikes").
(16) Having bowled out England in their second innings for 123, West Indies were required to make 192 to win the match and square the series and the expectation was that it would be a tough call for them, given the capricious nature of the pitch on the first two days, not least a second day in which 18 wickets fell, which is unprecedented for a Test match in Barbados.
(17) From an analysis of the electroencephalograms of 4,458 patients who underwent recording during both wakefulness ans sleep, through the years 1969 to 1975, wicket spikes-- recorded in 39 patients-- may be described as follows: They were found during both wakefulness ans sleep, almost exclusively in adults.
(18) "I'm fed up with all this bad mouthing of Uxbridge," writes Adrian Martins, batting on a sticky wicket.
(19) England did take three wickets, beginning with Rogers, who having made 54, patted a Tim Bresnan loosener to point in a particularly English manner.
(20) Sidebottom has taken 47 wickets at an average of less than 20, Patterson 45 at 24, Plunkett 36 at 28 and Brooks 34 at less than 23.