(n.) One of the casks stowed in the wings of a vessel's hold, being smaller than such as are stowed more amidships.
Example Sentences:
(1) At first it looked as though the winger might have shown too much of the ball to the defence, yet he managed to gain a crucial last touch to nudge it past Phil Jones and into the path of Jerome, who slipped Chris Smalling’s attempt at a covering tackle and held off Michael Carrick’s challenge to place a shot past an exposed De Gea.
(2) Nwakali, an attacking midfielder, was the player of the Under-17 World Cup in Chile last year, which Nigeria won, and at which his team-mate Chukwueze, a winger, also impressed.
(3) They'd started so well, too, winger Oreste Corbatta putting Argentina ahead after three minutes in the 1958 groups, but the 1954 hero Helmut Rahn scored twice in an eventual 3-1 win for West Germany.
(4) A foretaste of discontent came when Florian Thauvin, the underachieving £13m winger signed from Marseille last summer , was serenaded with chants of ‘You’re not fit to wear the shirt” from away fans during Saturday’s FA Cup defeat at Watford .
(5) Perhaps he is instinctively more forgiving about avoiding tax, which some right-wingers always regard as an indecent affront, than the free use of public funds.
(6) Which is another reason why, independent of talent, an Argentine is more likely to make a successful go of life in Madrid, Milan, Manchester or at a pinch (as with the case of the winger Carlos Marinelli) Middlesbrough.
(7) If the deal is completed without a hitch the winger will join his team-mates in Hong Kong, where André Villas-Boas's side will compete in the Asia Trophy.
(8) Roma are close to a deal for the Fiorentina winger Adem Ljajic and Tottenham's hopes of taking Lamela appear to hinge on it being finalised.
(9) The repositioning of Ashley Young is particularly intriguing given that Sir Alex Ferguson uses him as a right-footed left-winger at Manchester United.
(10) He replied tersely: “Di María is a fine player but we would still have won that game.” Martino called his winger “one of the five best players in the world” and said his country had missed him sorely in the final.
(11) Indeed, as Wilfried Zaha sashayed beyond Debuchy and company, Pardew must have braced himself for an equaliser – only for Tim Krul to brilliantly divert the winger's ensuing shot for a corner.
(12) The winger Balazs Dzsudzsak is the side’s only star.
(13) Should he head for the Bundesland of North Rhine-Westphalia, Spurs may offer his dressing-room peg to the Swiss striker Josip Drmic , a right-winger and striker who has scored 15 times for Nürnberg in the Bundesliga, including both goals in the crucial win over Stuttgart last night.
(14) Although Crouch had possible claims for a penalty in each half, Stoke's best chance came when Marko Arnautovic sent Oussama Assaidi clear only for a poor first touch to let down the winger, on loan from Liverpool.
(15) The winger’s cross teed up Sánchez and he tucked away his 10th goal of the season.
(16) Chelsea’s Diego Costa strikes at the last to deny Manchester United Read more That said, the width wasn’t provided in the conventional manner: Van Gaal fielded no touchline-hugging wingers, and instead fielded players who drifted inside into central positions.
(17) All inventive incision, the winger's arrival reinvigorated a suddenly possession-monopolising City.
(18) The England winger has been training with the under-21s for the past two and a half months after being frozen out by Mauricio Pochettino in the wake of his public spat with Nathan Gardiner, Tottenham’s fitness coach, following a win against Aston Villa in November.
(19) "I've always felt wingers, more than any type of player, can change a game," he says.
(20) Arjen Robben One of the best wingers in the world and a pleasure to watch.
Winker
Definition:
(n.) One who winks.
(n.) A horse's blinder; a blinker.
Example Sentences:
(1) If I can't indicate that my praise of a colleague's new shirt is sarcastic, not literal, without a gurning yellow winker, its presence stands more as indicative of my linguistic incompetence than his sartorial faux pas.