sightscreen

English

Etymology

From sight +‎ screen.

Pronunciation

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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 August, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; 3), London: Pan Books, →ISBN, page 24:

     The batsman swung and thwacked it behind him over the sight-screens.

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