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Definition of Croquet
1. Noun. A game in which players hit a wooden ball through a series of hoops; the winner is the first to traverse all the hoops and hit a peg.
2. Verb. Drive away by hitting with one's ball,. "Croquet the opponent's ball"
3. Verb. Play a game in which players hit a wooden ball through a series of hoops.
Definition of Croquet
1. n. An open-air game in which two or more players endeavor to drive wooden balls, by means of mallets, through a series of hoops or arches set in the ground according to some pattern.
2. v. t. In the game of croquet, to drive away an opponent's ball, after putting one's own in contact with it, by striking one's own ball with the mallet.
Definition of Croquet
1. Noun. (uncountable games) A game played on a lawn, in which players use mallets to drive balls through hoops (wickets). ¹
2. Noun. (countable games) A shot in this game in which the striker's ball and another ball are moved by hitting the striker's ball when they have been placed in contact following a roquet. ¹
3. Noun. A croquette. ¹
4. Verb. (transitive games) To play a shot in the game of croquet in which the striker's ball and another ball are moved by hitting the striker's ball when they have been placed in contact following a roquet. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Croquet
1. to drive a ball away in a certain game [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Croquet
Literary usage of Croquet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sport: Attempt at a Bibliography of Books and Periodicals Published During ...by C. M. van Stockum by C. M. van Stockum (1914)
"GAME OF croquet. History. — Rules a. laws. — Annual. Pfeiffer (K.). ... The laws
of: and regulations for prize meetings, Issued by The croquet Association. ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"When able to rush, the strokes made in taking croquet, viz., splitting, ...
If in his stroke after taking croquet be hits another ball or makes his next ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia of Sport by Henry Charles Howard Suffolk, Hedley Peek, Frederick George Aflalo (1897)
"All the countless other devices of croquet— the getting a " rush," ie hitting a
ball with such ... All England croquet Club—The club was founded in i860, ..."
4. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1878)
"MODERN croquet.—The object of this communication is to place before your readers
the advantages to be derived from playing croquet on a scientific basis, ..."
5. Beadle's Monthly (1866)
"inke croquet, and can score no point until it has done so. Having taken croquet,
it is again " in play ;" but it is not permit- led to roquet again the ball ..."
6. Belgravia by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1875)
"THE croquet PARTY. IT was during that short golden summer we generally have in
the beginning of October—when the leaves don their gayest colours, ..."
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