Meaning of CROQUET
| Pronunciation: | | krow'key
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- [n] 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
- [v] play croquet
- [v] drive away by hitting with one's ball, of an opponent's ball
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Cro*quet"\ (kr?-k?"), n. [From French; cf. Walloon
croque blow, fillip. F. croquet a crisp biscuit, croquer to
crunch, fr. croc a crackling sound, of imitative origin.
Croquet then properly meant a smart tap on the ball.]
1. 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. The act of croqueting.
\Cro*quet"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Croqueted} (-k?d); p.
pr. & vb. n. {Croqueting} (-k?"?ng).]
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.
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