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.
Denotes the half of the field on the same side as the batsman's legs; the left side for a right-handed batsman.
A part of garment, such as a pair of trousers/pants, that covers a leg.
One side of a multiple-sided (often triangular) course in a sailing race.
One of the branches of a hyperbola or other curve which extend outward indefinitely.
A branch circuit; one phase of a polyphase system.
In a grain elevator, the case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets.
In humans, the lower limb extending from the groin to the ankle.
A branch or lateral circuit connecting an instrument with the main line.
A single game or match played in a tournament or other sporting contest.
An army soldier assigned to a paratrooper unit who has not yet been qualified as a paratrooper.
The portion of the lower limb of a human that extends from the knee to the ankle.
A distance that a sailing vessel does without changing the sails from one side to the other.
An underlying instrument of a derivatives strategy.
An extension of a steam boiler downward, in the form of a narrow space between vertical plates, sometimes nearly surrounding the furnace and ash pit, and serving to support the boiler; called also water leg.
The ability of something to persist or succeed over a long period of time.
A stage of a journey, race etc.
A column, as a unit of length of text as laid out.
A rod-like protrusion from an inanimate object, such as a piece of furniture, supporting it from underneath.
Something that supports.
One of the two sides of a right triangle that is not the hypotenuse.
A limb or appendage that an animal uses for support or locomotion on land.
To remove the legs from an animal carcass.
To apply force using the leg (as in 'to leg a horse').
To put a series of three or more options strikes into the stock market.
To build legs onto a platform or stage for support.