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body-line

British  

adjective

  1. cricket denoting or relating to fast bowling aimed at the batsman's body

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They displayed Mr. Gaytten’s body-line tailoring, as did the sharp evening clothes.

From New York Times Jun. 26, 2011

A Nottinghamshire miner named Harold Larwood caused an international incident in 1933 with "body-line bowling": he tried to knock down Australian batsmen with beanballs, and sometimes succeeded.

From Time Magazine Archive

When on horseback his legs hardly reached the lower body-line of his mount, and only his extreme agility enabled him to get on successfully.

From Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life by White, Stewart Edward

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