square leg

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noun Cricket.

the position of a fielder on the left of the batsman and almost on the opposite side of the wicket.

the fielder occupying this position.

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Origin of square leg

First recorded in 1850–55

Words nearby square leg

squarehead, square inch, square kilometer, square knot, square-law, square leg, squarely, square matrix, square meal, square measure, square meter

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How to use square leg in a sentence

With a wonderful flick of the elbow he chops the ball exactly between square leg and point.
Mr. Punch's History of Modern England Vol. IV of IV.|Charles L. Graves
Still Captain Culler broke a window in the Kildare street club with a slog to square leg.
Ulysses|James Joyce
At the second attempt he hooked it over square-leg's head on to the fairway of the eighteenth hole.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Dec. 12, 1917|Various
The simple square leg without taper is one of the distinctive marks of Chippendale's time.
The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, vol. 06, No. 5, May 1900|Various

Roland only had three balls altogether, and off one of these he managed to get a square leg boundary.
The Lonely Unicorn|Alec Waugh

British Dictionary definitions for square leg

square leg

noun cricket

a fielding position on the on side approximately at right angles to the batsman

a person who fields in this position

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