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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Dasgupta also points to a knock of eight from 11 balls against Lucknow Super Giants, which included five tentative dots balls in a row before a sliced high catch offered off left-arm seamer Mohsin Khan.
From BBC • May 7, 2026
Sibley's 101 from 283 balls in Surrey's stalemate against Essex or Gay, who thwarted James Anderson and the highly-rated seamer Mitch Stanley to drag Durham from staring at a heavy defeat to victory?
From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026
Sam Cook played one Test last year, too small a sample size to make a judgement on the prolific Essex seamer.
From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026
The seamer achieved the feat in three overs as Lesotho were bowled out for 13 in 6.2 overs, chasing 203.
From BBC • Apr. 9, 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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