Definition of Cricketed

1. Verb. (past of cricket) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cricketed

1. cricket [v] - See also: cricket

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cricketed

cricket-bat willow
cricket ball
cricket bat
cricket bats
cricket equipment
cricket field
cricket fields
cricket frog
cricket ground
cricket grounds
cricket match
cricket pitch
cricket pitches
cricket whites
cricketed
cricketer
cricketers
cricketing
cricketless
crickets
crickety
crickey
cricking
cricks
cricky
crico-arytænoid
cricoarytenoid
cricoarytenoid articular capsule
cricoarytenoid articulation

Literary usage of Cricketed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Monthly Review (1832)
"He still cricketed, drank, wrestled, and wasted his time in all manner of frolics, until in a happy hour he married an amiable young woman, who succeeded by ..."

2. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1874)
"No ; Punch agrees with you, Most Reverend Primate : Too oft our parsons breathe a stuffy climate, Till men who rowed and cricketed—and thought— Become, ..."

3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1861)
"Ned cricketed, Phil boated ; thus one was thrown among the wet " bobs," one among the "dry." Ned was a careless dresser, Phil followed at humble distance, ..."

4. Poems by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson (1851)
"They boated and they cricketed ; they talked At wine, in clubs, of art, of politics ; They lost their weeks ; they vext the souls of deans ; They rode ..."

5. The Dickens Dictionary: A Key to the Characters and Principal Incidents in by Gilbert Ashville Pierce (1900)
"He wrote poetry, and he rode, and he ran, and he cricketed, and he danced, and he acted ; and he done it all equally beautiful. ..."

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