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Feature of bowler’s delivery: position taken up on leg
Answer for the clue "Feature of bowler’s delivery: position taken up on leg ", 7 letters:
topspin
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A rotational motion, especially that given to a ball, in which the upper surface spins in the direction of motion. vb. (context transitive English) To spin (a ball) with this motion.
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In sports, topspin is a property of a shot where the ball rotates as if rolling in the same direction as it is moving. Topspin or Top Spin may also refer to: Top Spin (film) , a 2014 documentary on Olympic athletes Top Spin (ride) , a thrill ride developed ...
Usage examples of topspin.
Drops, drops for angles, topspin lobs, extreme angles, drops for extreme angles, then restful microtennis, tennis inside the service lines, very soft and precise, radical angles much encouraged.
Lots of different dialects were spoken, although almost everyone spoke the lingua franca, which was basically trade-slang with a lot of Terranglish cognates and loanwords and a little neighborhood topspin.
It sputters away to one side, crippled by a perverse topspin that makes it fall from flight as dumpily as a blob of clay.
It was as though she were making a sharp backhand return to a half volley with a quick roll of the wrist at the end of the shot to impart topspin.
Fielding, tanned, tuned, a king's ransom of orthodonture having passed through his mouth, reared on steaks and on milk sweetened with iron and zinc, twenty-five, leaning into his strokes and imparting topspin with a roll of the wrist.
Daddy Big, trying futilely to memorize anew the fading memories of how he used to apply topspin and reverse English to the cue ball, recognized Franny Phelan, even though he had not seen him in twenty years.