croquet

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a lawn game in which players use mallets to hit wooden balls through a course of hoops

   They set up a game of croquet on the hotel lawn.

2. 2
   verb

   to play the game of croquet

   The guests croqueted on the lawn until sunset.

3. 3
   verb

   in croquet, to strike one's own ball so that an opponent's touching ball is driven away

   She croqueted his ball toward the edge of the court.

Borrowed from Norman croquet, 'hook,' from Old Northern French. The name probably referred to the hooked stick used in an earlier form of the game. It is related to crochet, crocket, and crotchet.

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