yorker

Historical Examples

• "Hardly think we'd enjoy that party, neighbor," said the Yorker leader.

  Historic Events of Colonial Days

  Rupert S. Holland

• As the cricketer said about the yorker, what else can you call him?

  Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front

  E. W. Hornung

• The ball not only happened to be straight, but was also a yorker.

  The Loom of Youth

  Alec Waugh

• Instantly Enoch had his rifle to his shoulder and had drawn bead upon the Yorker.

  With Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga

  W. Bert Foster

• She had sent down a deadly "yorker" which got under Janet's bat and spread-eagled her wicket.

  The Girls of St. Cyprian's

  Angela Brazil