Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In cricket, same as
leg , 6.
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Examples
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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.
Speak Tawnysha Greene 2012
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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.
Matthew Hoggard sees attack dented by Gloucestershire fightback Vic Marks at Bristol 2010
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Thick, long-sleeve, and long-leg neoprene suits in the winter, short and light in the spring and summer.
Kook Peter Heller 2010
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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 Joseph O'Neil 2007
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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 Joseph O'Neil 2007
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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 Joseph O'Neil 2007
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Wary of rockdogs and mindful of the long-leg sentries,
Genellan- Planetfall Gier, Scott 2005
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Braan turned to the approaching horses and their long-leg riders.
Genellan- Planetfall Gier, Scott 2005
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The hunter leader looked at the long-leg camp spread beneath him; he was in full view, darkness his only shield.
Genellan- Planetfall Gier, Scott 2005
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A ball pitched outside legstump is flicked down to the long-leg fence.
Cricket: The Joy of Shahid Afridi's Batting Chirayu 2005
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