To play the game of cricket.
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.
A game played outdoors with bats and a ball between two teams of eleven, popular in England and many Commonwealth countries.
An act that is fair and sportsmanlike.
In the form crickets: absolute silence; no communication.
To throw, cast.
To displace (a vein, stratum).
To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).
To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.
To rise and fall.
To utter with effort.
To pull up with a rope or cable.
To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.
To move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation.
To retch, to make an effort to vomit; to vomit.
A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.
An upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves, of the earth in an earthquake, etc.
An effort to vomit; retching.
Broken wind in horses.
The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel goes up and down in a short period of time. Compare pitch.
An effort to raise something, such as a weight or one's own body, or to move something heavy.
A forceful shot in which the ball follows a high trajectory