long-leg

• “My sister finds a daddy long-leg hanging in the corner, crawling up the wall and she runs to the kitchen where Daddy's mopping the floor.”

  Fictionaut: Speak

• “Gidman lost fluency and on 99 he attempted to hook a bouncer from Hoggard but only managed to spoon the ball to Harris at long-leg.”

  The Guardian: Matthew Hoggard sees attack dented by Gloucestershire fightback

• “Thick, long-sleeve, and long-leg neoprene suits in the winter, short and light in the spring and summer.”

  Simon & Schuster: Kook

• “This modern theory that the leg-glance does not pay is a fetish, first because you can place the ball, and secondly if you can hook then the life of long-leg is one long frustration.”

  Bowling Alone

• “A ball pitched outside legstump is flicked down to the long-leg fence.”

  Cricket: The Joy of Shahid Afridi's Batting

• “Wary of rockdogs and mindful of the long-leg sentries,”

  Genellan- Planetfall

• “Braan turned to the approaching horses and their long-leg riders.”

  Genellan- Planetfall

• “The hunter leader looked at the long-leg camp spread beneath him; he was in full view, darkness his only shield.”

  Genellan- Planetfall

• “To steam user Bool had been assigned the task of interpreting the long-leg drawings.”

  Genellan- Planetfall

• “Above-knee brace (long-leg brace) for weakness in the upper leg and knee - possibly also ankle and foot”

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