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1. Cricket
   In architecture a cricket is 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.
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2. cricket
   [n] - leaping insect 2. [n] - a game played with a ball and bat by two teams of 11 players 3. [v] - play cricket
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3. cricket
   rupture of a portion of the rectus femoris Category: Medicine
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4. Cricket
   A peaked saddle construction at the back of a chimney to prevent accumulation of snow and ice and to deflect water around the chimney.
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5. Cricket
   Crick'et noun [ Middle English criket , Old French crequet , criquet ; probably of German origin, and akin to English creak ; confer Dutch kriek a cricket. See Creak .] (Zoology) An orthopterous insect ...
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6. Cricket
   Crick'et noun [ Anglo-Saxon cricc , crycc , crooked staff, crutch. Perh. first used in sense 1, a stool probably having been first used as a wicket. See Crutch .] 1. A low stool. 2. A game much played in England, an...
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7. Cricket
   Crick'et intransitive verb To play at cricket. Tennyson.
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8. cricket
   noun a game played with a ball and bat by two teams of 11 players; teams take turns trying to score runs
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9. cricket
   noun leaping insect; male makes chirping noises by rubbing the forewings together
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10. cricket
    verb play cricket
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11. Cricket
    • (n.) 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. • (n.) A small false roof, or the raising of a portion of a roof, so as to throw off water from behind an obsta...
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12. cricket
    (from the article `darts`) Variations of the game include `cricket,` a game for two teams in which the players alternate between scoring inner bull`s-eyes and points; ...
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13. cricket
    any of approximately 2,400 species of leaping insects (order Orthoptera) that are worldwide in distribution and known for the musical chirping of the ... [5 related articles]
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14. cricket
    England`s national summer sport, which is now played throughout the world, particularly in Australia, India, Pakistan, the West Indies, and the ... [28 related articles]
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15. Cricket
    Cricket is a Greek girl name. The meaning of the name is `Loud Insect of the Night` The name Cricket doesn`t appear In the US top 1000 most common names over de last 128 years. The name Cricket seems to be unique!
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16. Cricket
    HMS Cricket was a British River Gunboat of 625 tons displacement designed by the Yarrow company during the Great War and launched in 1915 and sunk during the Second World War. HMS Cricket was powered by Yarrow boilers providing a top speed of 14 knots. She carried a complement of between 54 and 65 a...
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17. Cricket
    - A second roof built on top of the primary roof to increase the slope of the roof or valley. A saddle-shaped, peaked construction connecting a sloping roof with a chimney. Designed to encourage water drainage away from the chimney joint.
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18. Cricket
       A peaked saddle construction at the back of a chimney to prevent accumulation of snow and ice and to deflect water around the chimney.
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19. Cricket
    A ridge or drainage diverting roof framing.
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20. cricket
    cricket, common name of the slender, chirping, hopping insects forming the family Gryllidae in the order Orthoptera. Most crickets have long antennae, muscular hind legs for jumping, and two pairs of fully developed wings. In some subfamilies the wings are reduced or absent.In most subfamilies the m...
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21. cricket
    cricket, ball-and-bat game played chiefly in Great Britain and the Commonwealth countries.Sections in this article:IntroductionBasic RulesOrigin of CricketPrincipal Modern MatchesRecent DevelopmentsBibliography
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22. Cricket
    Cricket is the English national summer game - although the English cricket team of the 1990s is an international joke. The modern day game seems to have evolved around the 16th century from earlier bat and ball games dating from the 13th century and assumed its present form, through evolution, in th...
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23. cricket
    (insect) In zoology, an insect belonging to any of various families, especially the Gryllidae, of the order Orthoptera. Crickets are related to grasshoppers. They have somewhat flattened bodies and long antennae. The males make a chirping noise by rubbing together special areas on the forewing...
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24. cricket
    (sport) Bat-and-ball game between two teams of 11 players each. It is played with a small solid ball and long flat-sided wooden bats, on a round or oval field, at the centre of which is a finely mown pitch, 20 m/22 yd ...
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25. Cricket
    A copper attachment to a bit's port which will spin in the horse's mouth as he
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