collar the bowling

English

Verb

collar the bowling (third-person singular simple present collars the bowling, present participle collaring the bowling, simple past and past participle collared the bowling)

1. (cricket) (Of a batsman) to hit the bowled balls to all parts of the field.
   • 1870, The Marlburian, page 74:

     Heatley and Baines then got together, and succeeded in collaring the bowling, and put on 60 before they were separated, and, when Heatley was caught far out for 38, the score stood at 151.

   • 1872, Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, volume 22, page 166:

     The fact was that Mr. Bruce and Mr. Whitmore (who was stupidly run out in the first innings, else the same thing might not improbably have happened then) went in first, and collared the bowling in the first twenty minutes, […]