croqueting

Variant of croquet

croquet definition

cro·quet (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

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

transitive verb, intransitive verb croqueted -·queted′ (-kād′), croqueting -·quet′·ing

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

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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