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 hit or kick the ball in an unintended direction.
To misstrike the ball with the part of the club head that connects to the shaft.
To fall off, as a leaf, flower, or capsule, on account of disease affecting the supporting footstalk; usually followed by off.
To remove another's trousers, especially in jest; to depants.
To provide (a button) with a shank (loop forming an eye).
To apply the shank to a shoe, during the process of manufacturing it.
To stab, especially with an improvised blade.
The center part of a fishhook between the eye and the hook, the 'hook' being the curved part that bends toward the point.
A poorly played golf shot in which the ball is struck by the part of the club head that connects to the shaft.
A redshank or greenshank, various species of Old World wading birds in the genus Tringa having distinctly colored legs.
A large ladle for molten metal, fitted with long bars for handling it.
The main part or beginning of a period of time.
Meat from that part of an animal.
The handle of a pair of shears, connecting the ride to the neck.
An improvised stabbing weapon.
The space between two channels of the Doric triglyph.
The part of the sole beneath the instep connecting the broader front part with the heel.
The end or remainder, particularly of a period of time.
A loop forming an eye to a button.
The metal part on a curb bit that falls below the mouthpiece, which length controls the severity of the leverage action of the bit, and to which the reins of the bridle are attached.
A protruding part of an object, by which it is or can be attached.
A straight, narrow part of an object, such as a key or an anchor; shaft; stem.
The part of the leg between the knee and the ankle.
Flat-nosed pliers, used by opticians for nipping off the edges of pieces of glass to make them round.
Bad.