long-stop

The Empress, noble beast though she be, might not be suited to the fitness demands of the modern game. 150 years ago, however, she would make an admirable long-stop.

John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009

Article 11 provides a long-stop limitation period: after a product has been marketed for ten years, the manufacturer is safe from action except from those who've already commenced proceedings against them.

Archive 2008-06-01 2008

Stability or marital fidelity or any seriously covenanted relation to person or community resigns that long-stop possibility; which is why it feels so dangerous.

'Shaping Holy Lives', a Conference on Benedictine Spirituality 2003

"Huzza for old Rugby!" sings out Jack Raggles, the long-stop, toughest and burliest of boys, commonly called "Swiper Jack," and forthwith stands on his head, and brandishes his legs in the air in triumph, till the next boy catches hold of his heels, and throws him over on to his back.

Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971

Granted the necessity of occupying the Donetz basin and protecting it with the "buffer" of steppe in the large bend of the Don, Stalingrad constituted an acceptable strategic long-stop — particularly when its actual capture was subject to the escape clause cited above.

Barbarossa Clark, Alan 1965

On the 27th this corps covered the remaining fifty miles to Minsk, where it joined up with the southern arm of Hoth's pincer, putting a "long-stop" behind the Slonim pocket and achieving one of the most spectacular marches in the history of armoured warfare.

Barbarossa Clark, Alan 1965

Still farther north Hoth had wheeled his tanks down onto the Vyazma-Gzhatsh highway, placing a "long-stop" behind the Russian infantry.

Barbarossa Clark, Alan 1965

Now and then little George Lear (whom I have already described as being so fine a long-stop), would give Noah the wink to be on his guard, who would gather close behind him: then George would make a slip on purpose, and let the ball go by, when, in an instant, Noah would have it up, and into the wicket-keeper's hands, and the man was put out.

Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

In those days of fast bowling, they would put a man behind the long-stop, that he might cover both long-stop and slip; the man always selected for this post was Noah.

Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

At the same time the bowlers would get a good rest, and the left-handed artist, who had been acting as long-stop, might reasonably be expected to regain his cunning.

Dr. Jolliffe's Boys Lewis Hough