Definitions
a game played with a ball and bat by two teams of 11 players; teams take turns trying to score runs
Word origin
From Middle English creket, crykett, crykette, from Old French criket (with diminutive -et) from criquer (“to make a cracking sound; creak”), from Middle Dutch kricken (“to creak; crack”), from Proto-West Germanic *krakōn, related to Middle English creken, criken (“to creak”), all ultimately of imitative origin.
Used in a sentence
“Robbins went on, "Henry wouldn't do anything that wasn't cricket. Me, I was raised in a river ward and I'm not bothered by niceties. […]”
“Judge: Your family is in destitute circumstances. How do you get your living? Bannerman: By cricketing, your Worship.”
“Heawe’er I pood o Cricket, on keaw’rt meh deawn ith Nook, o side oth' Hob”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Bat game”7 letters
02“Bat-and-ball sport”7 letters
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