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first receiver

n. (context rugby English) - the first player to receive the ball, from a scrum-half (or acting scrum-half). This is often the fly-half, but may be a different player if the fly-half is unavailable, or a forward who will drive.

Usage examples of "first receiver".

Then, over the next few weeks or months, all of our available forces and a sufficient number of transmitters would be sent to join that first receiver.

The plan required that first receiver in deep space, and additional receivers near each of our targets in the Solar System, receivers that we knew the coordinates of well enough to transmit to them.

He needed the first receiver in only minutes, so that he could monitor Furst's conversations with the others from the first word.

Mattermission directly to the Amoeba could not be used until the first receiver was delivered, and Transfer required a living host already present.

He had built his first receiver when he was still a sopho-more, and his first really good receiver when he was a junior.

He had built his first receiver when he was still a sophomore, and his first really good receiver when he was a junior.