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 get a batsman out stumped.
To stop, confuse, or puzzle.
To bowl down the stumps of (a wicket).
To walk heavily or clumsily, plod, trudge.
To reduce to a stump; to truncate or cut off a part of.
To strike unexpectedly; to stub, as the toe against something fixed.
To travel over (a state, a district, etc.) giving speeches for electioneering purposes.
To baffle; to make unable to find an answer to a question or problem.
To campaign.
One of three small wooden posts which together with the bails make the wicket and that the fielding team attempt to hit with the ball.
The remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb.
A leg.
An artists’ drawing tool made of rolled paper used to smudge or blend marks made with charcoal, Conté crayon, pencil or other drawing media.
A wooden or concrete pole used to support a house.
The place or occasion at which a campaign takes place; the husting.
A place or occasion at which a person harangues or otherwise addresses a group in a manner suggesting political oration.
A pin in a tumbler lock which forms an obstruction to throwing the bolt except when the gates of the tumblers are properly arranged, as by the key.
A pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece.