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square leg
or square-leg
noun
, Cricket.
- the position of a fielder on the left of the batsman and almost on the opposite side of the wicket.
- the fielder occupying this position.
square leg
noun
- a fielding position on the on side approximately at right angles to the batsman
- a person who fields in this position
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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.
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Still Captain Culler broke a window in the Kildare street club with a slog to square leg.
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At the second attempt he hooked it over square-leg's head on to the fairway of the eighteenth hole.
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The simple square leg without taper is one of the distinctive marks of Chippendale's time.
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Roland only had three balls altogether, and off one of these he managed to get a square leg boundary.
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