croquet

(krō kā)

noun

  1. an outdoor game in which the players use mallets to drive a wooden ball through a series of hoops placed in the ground
  2. the act of croqueting

Origin: Fr, dial. form of crochet: see crotchet

transitive verb, intransitive verb croqueted , croqueting

in croquet, to drive away (an opponent's ball) by hitting one's own which has been placed in contact with it

See croquet in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
  1. An outdoor game in which the players drive wooden balls through a series of wickets using long-handled mallets.
  2. The act of driving away an opponent's croquet ball by hitting one's own ball when the two are in contact.
transitive verb cro·queted (-kādˈ), cro·quet·ing (-kāˈĭng), cro·quets (-kāzˈ)
To drive away (an opponent's croquet ball) by hitting one's own ball when the two are in contact.

Origin:

Origin: French dialectal, hockey stick

Origin: , from Old North French, shepherd's crook; see crocket

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