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  • noun cricket the feat of a bowler taking ten wickets in a match

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Examples

  • Tom Christie was the sort who knew a verse-or ten-for every occasion, and if he didn't beat his daughter physically, had almost certainly been doing it verbally.

    A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005

  • Ask Steven: A ten-for and a pair of spectacles, where Tom will beat Pidge, a Bradman-special PO Box, and more Alec Bedser was an impressive figure of a man, and his feats with the ball were befittingly large

    Cricinfo news from Cricinfo 2010

  • Ask Steven: A ten-for and a pair of spectacles, where Tom will beat Pidge, a Bradman-special PO Box, and more Alec Bedser was an impressive figure of a man, and his feats with the ball were befittingly large Play Lufthansa Fantasy Cricket and other games!

    Cricinfo news from Cricinfo 2010

  • Ask Steven: A ten-for and a pair of spectacles, where Tom will beat Pidge, a Bradman-special PO Box, and more Play Lufthansa Fantasy Cricket and other games!

    Cricinfo news from Cricinfo 2010

  • Ask Steven: A ten-for and a pair of spectacles, where Tom will beat Pidge, a Bradman-special PO Box, and more Alec Bedser was an impressive figure of a man, and his feats with the ball were befittingly large Play Lufthansa Fantasy Cricket and other games!

    Cricinfo news from Cricinfo 2010

  • Ask Steven: A ten-for and a pair of spectacles, where Tom will beat Pidge, a Bradman-special PO Box, and more Alec Bedser was an impressive figure of a man, and his feats with the ball were befittingly large

    Cricinfo news from Cricinfo 2010

  • Ask Steven: A ten-for and a pair of spectacles, where Tom will beat Pidge, a Bradman-special PO Box, and more Play Lufthansa Fantasy Cricket and other games!

    Cricinfo news from Cricinfo 2010

  • Ask Steven: A ten-for and a pair of spectacles, where Tom will beat Pidge, a Bradman-special PO Box, and more Alec Bedser was an impressive figure of a man, and his feats with the ball were befittingly large

    Cricinfo news from Cricinfo 2010

  • Ask Steven: A ten-for and a pair of spectacles, where Tom will beat Pidge, a Bradman-special PO Box, and more Alec Bedser was an impressive figure of a man, and his feats with the ball were befittingly large

    Cricinfo news from Cricinfo 2010

  • Ask Steven: A ten-for and a pair of spectacles, where Tom will beat Pidge, a Bradman-special PO Box, and more Play Lufthansa Fantasy Cricket and other games!

    Cricinfo news from Cricinfo 2010

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