Chinaman Definition

chīnə-mən
chinamen
noun
A Chinese person.
Webster's New World
(cricket) A left arm unorthodox spin bowler.
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(cricket) A ball, bowled by a left arm unorthodox spin bowler, with the wrist action of a leg break, but which spins from off to leg for a right handed batsman.

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(cricket) Or, conversely, such a ball bowled with the action of a googly.

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Other Word Forms of Chinaman

Noun

Singular:
Chinaman
Plural:
chinamen

Origin of Chinaman

  • From Chinese Pidgin English. A calque of Chinese 中國人, China +‎ -man.

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Chinaman Sentence Examples

  • The miners are all Kachins, and the right to collect the jade duty of 331 is farmed out by government to a lessee, who has hitherto always been a Chinaman.

  • No more solemn duty weighs upon the Chinaman than that of tending the spirits of his dead forefathers.

  • To the ordinary good citizen of antiquity, whose religion was the consecration of family ties, such a precept was no less scandalous than it is to a Chinaman or Hindu of to-day.

  • He was born in 1869 in Cavite, son of a native farmer of considerable ability, and of a half-caste mother whose father was a Chinaman.

  • Serious disturbances among the Chinese are now in Borneo matters of ancient history, and to-day the Chinaman forms perhaps the most valuable element in the civilization and development of the island, just as does his fellow in the mining states of the Malayan Peninsula.

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Words Starting With

CCHCHI

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NANMAN

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Words Starting With C and Ending With N

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