short leg
cricket
a fielding position on the leg side near the batsman's wicket
a fielder in this position
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How to use short leg in a sentence
Bray had just lifted a length ball off the middle stump over short-leg's head.
The Loom of Youth | Alec WaughThe first fiddler was a small man, with a short leg, and a character that was minus one dimension.
Eben Holden | Irving BachellerBehind this jaw is a short leg, formed like a walking leg, and known as the 'palp.'
Chatterbox, 1905. | VariousThe smaller tube thus forms the long leg of a syphon, and the larger tube acts as the short leg.
A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments | Henry NegrettiA short leg in very wide trousers was next introduced, and this was followed by a crooked and consequently still shorter one.
Magnhild Dust | Bjrnstjerne Bjrnson
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