seamer
Britishnoun
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a person or thing that seams
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another name for seam bowler
Example Sentences
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If there is a question to be answered about England's side, it is who will fill the seamer slots in the XI.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
On 31 August 1968 at Swansea, Sobers was looking for some quick runs to set up a Notts declaration - and decided to take on Glamorgan seamer Malcolm Nash, who was experimenting with left-arm spin.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
The captain was their best seamer on day one in Nottingham and this situation - a game in the balance - was made for the talisman.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
Shoaib Bashir took two in an over and Jofra Archer one, as well as striking Blair Tickner with a blow that eventually ruled the seamer out of the match with concussion.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
It is quite certain that as late as Ben Jonson, ‘seamster’ and ‘songster’ expressed the female seamer and singer; a single passage from his Masque of Christmas is evidence to this.
From English Past and Present by Palmer, Abram Smythe
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