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Long-stop

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Long´-stop`
n.1.(Cricket) One who is set to stop balls which pass the wicket keeper.
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" sings out Jack Raggles, the long-stop, toughest and burliest of boys, commonly called "Swiper Jack," and forthwith stands on his head, and brandishes his legs in the air in triumph, till the next boy catches hold of his heels, and throws him over on to his back.
Tom Brown's Schooldays by Hughes, Thomas View in context
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