chinaman

A dealer in porcelain (china).

A left-arm unorthodox bowling action (left-arm wrist-spin).

Several cricketers came up to them and asked Pradeep about his effortless action mimicry and his promising chinaman bowling.

A spin bowler who uses such an action.

A ball delivered with such an action.

A Chinese person, or person of Chinese descent.

A disorderly Chinaman is rare, and a lazy one does not exist. So long as a Chinaman has strength to use his hands he needs no support from anybody; white men often complain of want of work, but a Chinaman offers no such complaint; he always manages to find something to do.[…]Any white man can swear a Chinaman’s life away in the courts, but no Chinaman can testify against a white man.

Another favorite pastime of the Highbinder who is usually a loafer, is to levy blackmail on a wealthy Chinaman.[…]If it were not that the Chinamen kill only men of their own race and let alone all other men, the citizens of San Francisco would have sacked and burned Chinatown.

A sailing ship of the 18th and 19th centuries engaged in the Old China Trade

Addiction from a narcotic, especially heroin.

Chinaman half in and half out of the door. Codeine and goof balls, and complete discouragement.