cricket Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun leaping insect; male makes chirping noises by rubbing the forewings together
  2. noun a game played with a ball and bat by two teams of 11 players; teams take turns trying to score runs
  3. verb play cricket

WordNet

Crick"et noun
Etymology
OE. criket, OF. crequet, criquet; prob. of German origin, and akin to E. creak; cf. D. kriek a cricket. See Creak.
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) An orthopterous insect of the genus Gryllus, and allied genera. The males make chirping, musical notes by rubbing together the basal parts of the veins of the front wings. ✍ The common European cricket is Gryllus domesticus; the common large black crickets of America are G. niger, G. neglectus, and others.
Crick"et noun
Etymology
AS. cricc, crycc, crooked staff, crutch. Perh. first used in sense 1, a stool prob. having been first used as a wicket. See Crutch.
Definitions
  1. A low stool.
  2. A game much played in England, and sometimes in America, with a ball, bats, and wickets, the players being arranged in two contesting parties or sides.
  3. (Arch.) A small false roof, or the raising of a portion of a roof, so as to throw off water from behind an obstacle, such as a chimney.
Crick"et intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To play at cricket. Tennyson.

Webster 1913