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moundsman

[moundz-muhn]

noun

Baseball Slang.

plural

moundsmen 
  1. pitcher.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of moundsman1

First recorded in 1910–15; mound 1 + 's 1 + man
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Example Sentences

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It ran in 1960 and starred Robert Sorrells as the unusual moundsman.

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The elder moundsman and coach was on a 40-and-over team that won the state title two years ago.

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The Appeal: The Dingo is where whiskey-sodden weeks spent with completely worthless characters are sporadically punctuated by run-ins with the Princeton elite – the great moundsman Dunc Chaplin, as well as the occasionally poignant, pretty-faced, wavy-haired, high-foreheaded, friendly-eyed, Irish-mouthed, built-chinned, good-eared, capable-handed, unmarked-nosed, lightly-built F Scott Fitzgerald.

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But every moundsman has his jinx.

For a veteran moundsman, such marks would be merely amazing.

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