mid-wicket

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noun cricket

the fielding position on the on side, approximately midway between square leg and mid-on

a fielder in this position

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Words nearby mid-wicket

midweekly, Midwest, Midwest City, Midwestern, Midwesterner, mid-wicket, mid wicket off, mid wicket on, midwife, midwifery, midwife toad

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But with the outbreak of hostilities in mid-2011, all festivities were thrust into the deep freeze.
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Think of the embarrassing subway platform or mid-office “adjustment” debacles you could avoid!
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My bike ride that mid-October day starts like so many others.
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We had now approached closely to the foot of the mountain-ranges, and their lofty summits were high above us in mid-air.
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So they often occured mid-paragraph; here they have been moved to a more appropriate place.
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Monsieur Farival thought that Victor should have been taken out in mid-ocean in his earliest youth and drowned.
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While she flitted into the next room to fetch a stamp, Mrs. Haughstone, her needles arrested in mid-air, looked steadily at Tom.
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It was a room without beauty, merely walls, repapered once every twenty years, and furniture of the mid-Victorian era.
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