croqueting

Variant of croquet

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
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