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cover point

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noun

Cricket. the position and the player stationed near the point.
Lacrosse. the position and the player stationed before the point.

Origin of cover point

First recorded in 1840–50
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Examples from the Web for cover point

Historical Examples of cover point

  • Cover-point: the person who stops a ball or the act of stopping it.

    Tom Brown at Rugby

    Thomas Hughes

  • Then the cover-point hitter, that cunning man, goes on to bowl slow twisters.

  • Cover-point was the doctor, and probably the safest man in the whole field to whom to send a catch.

  • Twelve runs had been scored in the first five balls; there had been a possible run out; a catch had been missed at cover-point.

  • The Hammond cover-point checked his stick and secured the disk, shooting it down the rink.

    The Crimson Sweater

    Ralph Henry Barbour

British Dictionary definitions for cover point

cover point

noun

cricket
  1. a fielding position in the covers
  2. a fielder in this position
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