cricket vs husband

cricket

noun
  • A wooden footstool. 

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

verb
  • To play the game of cricket. 

husband

noun
  • A large cushion with arms meant to support a person in the sitting position. 

  • The male of a pair of animals. 

  • A prudent or frugal manager. 

  • The master of a house; the head of a family; a householder. 

  • A tiller of the ground; a husbandman. 

  • A manager of property; one who has the care of another's belongings, owndom, or interests; a steward; an economist. 

  • A polled tree; a pollard. 

  • A man in a marriage or marital relationship, especially in relation to his spouse. 

verb
  • To conserve. 

  • To manage or administer carefully and frugally; use to the best advantage; economise. 

  • To engage or act as a husband to; assume the care of or responsibility for; accept as one's own. 

  • To provide with a husband. 

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