1) French word used in English 2) Game played on a lawn 3) Lawn game 4) Low-stakes game 5) Outdoor game 6) Sport with wickets 7) Wimbledon Cup sport 8) Wonderland pastime
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Croquet is a sport that involves hitting plastic or wooden balls with a mallet through hoops (often called `wickets` in the United States) embedded in a grass playing court. ==History== The oldest document to bear the word croquet with a description of the modern game is the set of rules registered by Isaac Spratt in November 1856 with the Stati.....
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• (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. • (n.) The act of croqueting. • (v. t.) In the game of croquet, to drive away an opponent`s ball, after putting one`s own in contact with it, by str...
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popular outdoor game, played on a lawn or court, with long-handled mallets with which the players hit balls through a series of wickets, or hoops.
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Cro·quet' noun [ From French; confer Walloon
croque blow, fillip. French
croquet a crisp biscuit,
croquer to crunch, from
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 m...
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Cro·quet' transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Croqueted (-k?d);
present participle & verbal noun 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 stri...
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Croquet is an open-air lawn game which was introduced into England around 1850. Croquet is played with balls, mallets, hoops, and pegs on a level area, which should be at least 30 yards long by 20 yards wide. The iron hoops (shaped like the letter U) are fixed with their two ends in the ground, arranged in a somewhat zigzag manner over the ground; ...
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n] - a game in which players hit a wooden ball through a series of hoops 2. [v] - drive away by hitting with one`s ball, of an opponent`s ball 3. [v] - play croquet
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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
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Outdoor game played with mallets and balls on a level hooped lawn measuring 27 m/90 ft by 18 m/60 ft. Played in France in the 16th and 17th centuries, it gained popularity in the USA and England in the 1850s. Two or more players can play, and the object is to drive the balls though the hoops (wickets) in rotation. A player's ball may be...
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a game in which players hit a ball through a series of hoops
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[Difficult words] a game in which players hit a ball through a series of hoops
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[Obscure words] a game in which players hit a ball through a series of hoops
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