Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of cricket is as below...

Cricket :: Cricket (n.) 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..

Garganey :: Garganey (n.) A small European duck (Anas querquedula); -- called also cricket teal, and summer teal..

Cricket :: 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..

Score :: Score (n.) The number of points gained by the contestants, or either of them, in any game, as in cards or cricket..

Stridulation :: Stridulation (n.) The act of making shrill sounds or musical notes by rubbing together certain hard parts, as is done by the males of many insects, especially by Orthoptera, such as crickets, grasshoppers, and locusts..

Team :: Team (n.) A number of persons associated together in any work; a gang; especially, a number of persons selected to contend on one side in a match, or a series of matches, in a cricket, football, rowing, etc..

Grig :: Grig (n.) A cricket or grasshopper.

Fritinancy :: Fritinancy (n.) A chirping or creaking, as of a cricket..

Inning :: Inning (n.) The state or turn of being in; specifically, in cricket, baseball, etc.,the turn or time of a player or of a side at the bat; -- often in the pl. Hence: The turn or time of a person, or a party, in power; as, the Whigs went out, and the Democrats had their innings..

Sky :: Sky (v. t.) To throw towards the sky; as, to sky a ball at cricket..

Batsman :: Batsman (n.) The one who wields the bat in cricket, baseball, etc..

Locustella :: Locustella (n.) The European cricket warbler.

Bowl :: Bowl (v. t.) To roll, as a bowl or cricket ball..

Gryllus :: Gryllus (n.) A genus of insects including the common crickets.

Bowler :: Bowler (n.) One who plays at bowls, or who rolls the ball in cricket or any other game..

Run :: Run (n.) In baseball, a complete circuit of the bases made by a player, which enables him to score one; in cricket, a passing from one wicket to the other, by which one point is scored; as, a player made three runs; the side went out with two hundred runs..

Saltatoria :: Saltatoria (n. pl.) A division of Orthoptera including grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets..

Cricket :: Cricket (v. i.) To play at cricket.

Rule :: Rule (a.) That which is prescribed or laid down as a guide for conduct or action; a governing direction for a specific purpose; an authoritative enactment; a regulation; a prescription; a precept; as, the rules of various societies; the rules governing a school; a rule of etiquette or propriety; the rules of cricket..

Bowling :: Bowling (n.) The act of playing at or rolling bowls, or of rolling the ball at cricket; the game of bowls or of tenpins..

Random Fonts

Most Popular