sightscreen

English

Etymology

sight +‎ screen

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Noun

sightscreen (plural sightscreens)

  1. (cricket) A large screen, at each end of a cricket field, coloured to provide visual contrast to the cricket ball, to aid the batsman in seeing its movement through the air.
    • 1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 24:
      The batsman swung and thwacked it behind him over the sight-screens.

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