six-stitcher

noun

A regulation cricket ball.

Meanings

nounsix-stitcher (plural six-stitchers)

plural six-stitchers

  1. ball gamesA regulation cricket ball.

    Monte’s nose was lumpy from where a cricket ball had broken it. ‘A real six-stitcher too, Mr Delarue.’

    1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 33
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