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 a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).
To cut into slices.
To kick the ball so that it goes in an unintended direction, at too great an angle or too high.
To cut with an edge utilizing a drawing motion.
To angle the blade so that it goes too deeply into the water when starting to take a stroke.
To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar.
To hit the ball with a stroke that causes a spin, resulting in the ball swerving or staying low after a bounce.
To hit the shuttlecock with the racket at an angle, causing it to move sideways and downwards.
Having the properties of a slice knot.
A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.)
A piece of pizza, shaped like a sector of a circle.
A contiguous portion of an array.
A removable sliding bottom to a galley.
A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling.
That which is thin and broad.
One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.
A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook, draw
A thin, broad piece cut off.
A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray.
Any of a class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices.
A salver, platter, or tray.
A broad, thin piece of plaster.
An amount of anything.
A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.
A plate of iron with a handle, forming a kind of chisel, or a spadelike implement, variously proportioned, and used for various purposes, as for stripping the planking from a vessel's side, for cutting blubber from a whale, or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel.