On one side or the other of the mark; too far sideways from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc.
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Too bad! That was a great passing-shot, but it's wide.
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Surely he shoots wide on the Bow-Hand.
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1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: […] Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] [b]y John Morrison, 1809, →OCLC:
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I was but two bows wide.
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1656, Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, Philip Massinger, The Old Law: