Croquet : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Croquet	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Croquet
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
croquet n a game in which players hit a wooden ball through a series of hoops; the winner is the first to traverse all the hoops and hit a peg v drive away by hitting with one's ball, "croquet the opponent's ball" play a game in which players hit a wooden ball through a series of hoops
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Croquet \Croquet"\ (kr?-k?"), n. [From French; cf. Walloon croque blow, fillip. F. croquet* a crisp biscuit, croquer to crunch, fr. croc a crackling sound, of imitative origin. Croquet then properly meant a smart tap on the ball.] 1. An open-air game in which two or more players endeavor to drive wooden balls, by means of mallets, through a series of hoops or arches set in the ground according to some pattern. 2. The act of croqueting.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Croquet \Cro*quet"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Croqueted} (-k?d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Croqueting} (-k?"?ng).] In the game of croquet, to drive away an opponent's ball, after putting one's own in contact with it, by striking one's own ball with the mallet.