middle stump
nounCricket.
the stump inside of the leg stump and the off stump; the second of the three stumps of a wicket.
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How to use middle stump in a sentence
If it had been a decent-sized rabbit, I should have plugged it middle stump; only it was a small one, so I missed.
The Gold Bat | P. G. WodehouseThe next ball came straight for the middle stump, but was blocked back half-way between the creases, and another run was stolen.
Dr. Jolliffe's Boys | Lewis HoughBray had just lifted a length ball off the middle stump over short-leg's head.
The Loom of Youth | Alec WaughIn 1775 they wisely introduced a middle stump, as they found the best balls harmlessly flying between the wide wickets.
Old English Sports | Peter Hampson DitchfieldAnd then that thick-set, muscular beast, for so Fluff regarded him, stared fixedly at Fluff's middle stump.
The Hill | Horace Annesley Vachell
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