Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which seams; a seamster. See
seaming-machine , 2.
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- noun cricket A
bowler skilled at making theball toseam
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Examples
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He was never blessed with an overpowering fastball; his four-seamer is clocked between 88-91 mph, and his two-seamer a little below that.
USATODAY.com - Is D'backs' duo better than Koufax and Drysdale? 2002
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Recalled seamer Mohammad Sami took two for 25 after a wayward start.
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Mashed potato – the medium-pace seamer of the culinary world.
Let's drink to the dobbers – cricket's decaf bowlers | Harry Pearson 2011
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Geoff Miller, the national selector, watched each of his five spells closely, and although with a bit of luck Broad could have had more wickets as he mostly pitched the ball up on a green and helpful pitch, this fell well short of an irresistible case for selection as the third seamer behind James Anderson and Chris Tremlett – a role for which Tim Bresnan and Steven Finn are also challenging.
Nottinghamshire's Stuart Broad huffs and puffs for two Somerset scalps 2011
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A couple of years later I was fielding at short-leg to a left‑arm seamer with a weakness for bowling leg-stump, long hops.
Mohinder Amarnath's bravery for India was a lesson for the cricket world | Rob Bagchi 2011
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Even more than Malinga, the men Sri Lanka will miss in the current series are Muralitharan, who retired last year, and their best-ever seamer, Chaminda Vaas, who retired two years ago.
Bowling Is Taking a Battering Richard Lord 2011
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West Indies were hampered by the absence of their seamer Ravi Rampaul, who did not bowl due to a virus which kept him at the team hotel for most of the day.
MS Dhoni steers India towards series victory over West Indies 2011
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Masters, the 33-year-old Essex seamer, is in many ways the archetypal journeyman cricketer but here he seized the advantage of a helpful pitch and a dispirited opposition to claim the outrageous figures of eight for 10 as Leicestershire were brushed aside for 34 in 88 balls.
Essex v Leicestershire | County Championship match report 2011
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It was towards the start of a game at Taunton, and an inexperienced Warwickshire seamer was bowling with an equally inexperienced wicketkeeper, standing in for injury while a substitute was en route from Birmingham.
For cricket, read life: Andrew Strauss admits his 'sliding door' moment | Mike Selvey 2011
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Mystifyingly, their squad for Sri Lanka doesn't include their best spinner and their form seamer, Stephen O'Keefe and Doug Bollinger.
Bowling Is Taking a Battering Richard Lord 2011
bilby commented on the word seamer
Cricket jargon - a bowler who relies mainly on movement off the pitch by trying to land the ball on its stitched seam.
November 30, 2007