A game played outdoors with bats and a ball between two teams of eleven, popular in England and many Commonwealth countries.
A relatively small area of a roof constructed to divert water from a horizontal intersection of the roof with a chimney, wall, expansion joint, or other projection.
A signalling device used by soldiers in hostile territory to identify themselves to a friendly in low visibility conditions.
A variant of the game of darts. See Cricket (darts).
An aural warning sound consisting of a continuously-repeating chime, designed to be difficult for pilots to ignore.
A wooden footstool.
An insect in the order Orthoptera, especially family Gryllidae, that makes a chirping sound by rubbing its wing casings against combs on its hind legs.
An act that is fair and sportsmanlike.
In the form crickets: absolute silence; no communication.
To play the game of cricket.
An innings.
Digoxin.
A defensive pass of the ball that has been attacked by the opposing team.
A cutting, sarcastic remark.
An archeological or paleontological investigation, or the site where such an investigation is taking place.
A rare or interesting vinyl record bought second-hand.
A thrust; a poke.
The occupation of digging for gold.
To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More generally, to make any similar hole by moving material out of the way.
To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up.
To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
To defend against an attack hit by the opposing team by successfully passing the ball
To investigate, to research, often followed by out or up.
To thrust; to poke.