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sightscreen

noun

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.

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Meanings

nounsightscreen (plural sightscreens)

plural sightscreens

ball gamesA 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.
The batsman swung and thwacked it behind him over the sight-screens.
1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 24

Origin

From sight + screen.

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APA

sightscreen. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sightscreen

MLA

“sightscreen.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sightscreen. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sightscreen,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sightscreen.

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