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Batsman

//ˈbætsmən// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A player of the batting side now on the field.
  2. 2
    (baseball) a male ballplayer who is batting wordnet
  3. 3
    The player now receiving strike; the striker.

    "The batsman, Kathryn Leng, (who has played for quite a few years for England) asked the umpire dumbfounded if Charlie was going to bowl with a helmet on."

  4. 4
    Any player selected for his or her team principally to bat, as opposed to a bowler.
  5. 5
    A hitter. archaic
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  1. 6
    An officer who used a pair of hand-held bats to signal to aircraft as they came in to land on the flight deck. historical

Etymology

From bat + -s- + -man.

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