Chinaman
[tʃainәmәn]
Definition
(noun.) a ball bowled by a left-handed bowler to a right-handed batsman that spins from off to leg.
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Definition
(n.) A native of China; a Chinese.
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Examples
- John Bull does abhor the crimes of John Chinaman. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- They were covered with gilding, and resembled the shoe of a Chinaman. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The pigtailed Chinaman is quite a recent, and now a vanished figure in history. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And John Chinaman says my virtue is the genuine virtue. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- They did not realize that Chinamen and Indians could carry on the work of research as ably as Frenchmen or Englishmen. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Playing us for Chinamen because we are strangers and trying to learn! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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