Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fielder in the game of cricket who stands a little to the right of and behind point, and whose duty it is to stop and return all balls batted toward him. See
cricket . - noun In the game of lacrosse, a player who stands just in front of point, and who should prevent the ball from coming near the goal.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports “point.”
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Examples
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Newton, who went to his half-century by cutting the first ball after tea, bowled by Rayner, to the cover-point boundary, duly closed on 66 not out.
Northamptonshire 145-3 v Middlesex | County Championship match report 2011
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Soldiers were looking for cover-point, continue to shoot!
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Johnson, the young bowler, is getting wild, and bowls a ball almost wide to the off; the batter steps out and cuts it beautifully to where cover-point is standing very deep — in fact almost off the ground.
Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971
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Then the cover-point hitter, that cunning man, goes on to bowl slow twisters.
Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971
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Unfortunately, however, no one was there to catch it when it fell to the ground a long way beyond cover-point, and the Inimitables scored six for it -- disgusting!
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A hard shot over cover-point sent up his individual fifty, and two overs later he drove a length ball on the off stump past mid on to the boundary, and the hundred went up amid cheers.
The Loom of Youth Alec Waugh 1939
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A worried-looking little person who had fielded with immense zeal during the School innings at cover-point took the first ball.
A Prefect's Uncle 1928
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The ball touched the corner of the bat, and soared up in the direction of cover-point, where Pringle held it comfortably.
A Prefect's Uncle 1928
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And there is the village match, where cows are apt to stroll on to the pitch before the innings and cover-point stands up to his neck in a furze-bush.
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Flower was bowling; it was a fast, true wicket, and Stott, who was a safe field, was at cover-point.
The Wonder 1910
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