Bible Dictionaries
Cricket

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(v. i.) To play at cricket.

(2):

(n.) A game much played in England, and sometimes in America, with a ball, bats, and wickets, the players being arranged in two contesting parties or sides.

(3):

(n.) A low stool.

(4):

(n.) An orthopterous insect of the genus Gryllus, and allied genera. The males make chirping, musical notes by rubbing together the basal parts of the veins of the front wings.

(5):

(n.) A small false roof, or the raising of a portion of a roof, so as to throw off water from behind an obstacle, such as a chimney.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Cricket'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​c/cricket.html. 1828.