six-stitcher

English

Noun

six-stitcher (plural six-stitchers)

1. (cricket) A regulation cricket ball.
   • 1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 33:

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