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square leg

or square-leg

noun

, Cricket.
  1. the position of a fielder on the left of the batsman and almost on the opposite side of the wicket.
  2. the fielder occupying this position.


square leg

noun

  1. a fielding position on the on side approximately at right angles to the batsman
  2. a person who fields in this position
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of square leg1

First recorded in 1850–55
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Example Sentences

With a wonderful flick of the elbow he chops the ball exactly between square leg and point.

Still Captain Culler broke a window in the Kildare street club with a slog to square leg.

At the second attempt he hooked it over square-leg's head on to the fairway of the eighteenth hole.

The simple square leg without taper is one of the distinctive marks of Chippendale's time.

Roland only had three balls altogether, and off one of these he managed to get a square leg boundary.

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