Crick"et , v. i. To play at cricket. Tennyson.
Crick"et , n. [AS. cricc, crycc, crooked staff, crutch. Perh. first used in sense 1, a stool prob. having been first used as a wicket. See Crutch.]
1. A low stool.
2. A game much
played in England, and sometimes in America, with a ball,
bats, and wickets, the players being arranged in two contesting parties or
sides.
3. (Arch.)
A small false roof, or the raising of a
portion of a roof, so as to throw off water from behind an obstacle, such as a chimney.
Crick"et (kr?k"?t),
n. [OE. criket, OF. crequet, criquet; prob. of German origin, and akin to E. creak; cf. D. kriek a cricket. See Creak.]
(Zoöl.) An orthopterous insect of the genus
Gryllus, and allied genera. The males make chirping, musical notes by rubbing together the basal parts of the veins of the
front wings.
&fist; The common European cricket is Gryllus domesticus; the common large black crickets of America are G. niger, G. neglectus, and others.
Balm cricket.
See under Balm. -- Cricket bird, a small European bird (Silvia locustella); -- called also grasshopper warbler. -- Cricket frog, a small American tree frog (Acris gryllus); --
so called from its chirping.
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