wide
/waɪd/ noun C2- A ball that passes so far from the batsman that the umpire deems it unplayable; the arm signal used by an umpire to signal a wide; the extra run added to the batting side's score
Plural wides
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The ordinary London growler is considerably less wide than a gentleman’s brougham.
It was lying wide of the metals upon the left hand of the track as one goes eastward, at a point close to the station, where the line emerges from the tunnel in which it runs.
He noticed that a ladder, which usually lay there, was raised against one of the windows of the second floor, which was wide open.
What in the whole wide world can be the connection between this dead painting man and the affair at Birlstone?”
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