croquet
cro·quet (krō kā′)
noun
- an outdoor game in which the players use mallets to drive a wooden ball through a series of hoops placed in the ground
- the act of croqueting
Etymology: Fr, dial. form of crochet: see crotchet
transitive verb, intransitive verb -·queted′-kād′, -·quet′·ing
in croquet, to drive away (an opponent's ball) by hitting one's own which has been placed in contact with it
Object
- ball: The croqueted ball goes too far, or else the striker's ball does not go far enough.
Preposition: on
- lawn: Croquet You can play croquet on the lawns by Old Hall.
Noun used with modifier
- golf: The object was to go round nine hoops, using golf croquet rules.
- association: Unlike association croquet, there are no breaks in golf croquet - each turn consists of a single stroke.
- size: This now contains a skate board park, a BMX track, and two full size croquet lawns with their own small pavilion.
- play: I would like to stimulate you to travel around the world and play croquet.
Adjective modifier
- short: They include handicap events, advanced events, golf croquet, short croquet, singles, doubles, you name it!
Converse of object
- play: Chris Daniels has been playing croquet for little over a year.
- set: Outside The Gardens A barbecue and plenty of garden furniture is provided plus a croquet set for the long summer evenings!
- develop: We welcome enquiries from any member interested in helping to develop croquet in their region.
- take: I'd won the first game without David taking croquet.
- include: Revise the Coaching Manual, which will include golf croquet.
- promote: This body, administered from England, attempts to co-ordinate and promote croquet on a world wide basis.
Modifies a noun
- lawn: The grass tennis court / croquet lawn is shared with the cottage.
- mallet: One motorist even admitted to storing a croquet mallet in his car.
- stroke: The croquet stroke is unique to croquet, hence the name.
- tournament: Jonathan received the Moffat mallet, which is the oldest croquet tournament trophy anywhere in the world, dating from 1870.
- championship: Plan for association croquet World Championships to be held in England in 2005.
- player: The creators of the Simpsons must have been backyard croquet players.
Preposition: for
- girl: Logged scorp Gingerbeer Goddess Online Posts: 4,632 Cricket for boys, and croquet for girls Re: clothes for tall babies?
Praise the sports of the land And water, each oneö The bath by the beach, or the yacht on the seaö But of all the sweet pleasures Known under the sun; A good game of Croquet's the sweetest to me.
It is no game for the soft of sinewand the gentle of spirit. Thehigherand dirtiercroquet-playercanusetheguile of a cobra and the inhumanity of a boa constrictor.
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