cricket vs scarf

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. 

scarf

noun
  • A type of joint in woodworking. 

  • A groove on one side of a sewing machine needle. 

  • A headscarf. 

  • A dip or notch or cut made in the trunk of a tree to direct its fall when felling. 

  • A cormorant. 

  • A long, often knitted, garment worn around the neck. 

verb
  • To throw on loosely; to put on like a scarf. 

  • To unite, as two pieces of timber or metal, by a scarf joint. 

  • To eat very quickly. 

  • To dress with a scarf, or as with a scarf; to cover with a loose wrapping. 

  • To form a scarf on the end or edge of, as for a joint in timber, forming a "V" groove for welding adjacent metal plates, metal rods, etc. 

  • To shape by grinding. 

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