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▪ I. croquet, n.|ˈkrəʊkeɪ, -kɪ|
[Supposed to be a. NorthFr. croquet, dial. form of crochet, dim. of croc, croche crook, found in ONF. in sense of ‘shepherd's crook’ (Du Cange s.v. crochetum, Littré and Hatzfeld s.v. Crochet); and used in some modern F. dialects in sense of ‘hockey-stick’.
Authorities for this use of croquet in Brittany are given by Dr. Prior Notes on Croquet (1872) 51/2. In The Reader of 29 Oct. 1864, F. J. Foot, of the Geological Survey, stated that the game had been played under this name (though this is perhaps doubtful) near Dublin in 1834–5: see also quot. 1877. From Ireland the game and name were introduced into England in 1852, where between 1858 and 1872 Croquet attained great popularity.]
1. A game played upon a lawn, in which wooden balls are driven by means of wooden mallets through iron arches or ‘hoops’ fixed in the ground in a particular order.
It resembles more or less the ancient game of closh, and the more recent one of pall-mall, in both of which a ball had to be driven through an arch or hoop, in the former by a spade-shaped beytel, in the latter by a mallet.
1858Field 10 July 33/3 There is no game which has made such rapid strides in this county [Co. Meath] within a few years as croquet. Ibid. 27 Nov. 437/2 The game [croquet]..was introduced into the North of Ireland some twelve years ago from a French convent. 1862Trollope Small House at Allington ii, ‘I haven't had a game of croquet yet’, said Mr. Crosbie. 1864Daily Tel. 4 June, Croquet, a fashionable game everywhere, is adopted permanently at Cambridge. 1877Encycl. Brit. VI. 608 Mr. Dickson, an ivory turner of Gracechurch Street, London, remembers having made a set of croquet implements for Ireland over 40 years ago.
2. The action of croqueting a ball in the game of croquet (see croquet v.).
1874J. D. Heath Croquet Player 8 This hitting of one ball by another..[and] the consequent ‘croquet’, in which the two balls are placed together, and struck so as to move them both. Ibid. 14 To croquet, or take croquet.
3. attrib. and Comb., as croquet-ground, croquet-hoop, croquet-mallet, croquet-match, croquet-player, etc.
1868Dilke Greater Brit. II. 246 Few with flat ground enough for more than..a quarter of a croquet-ground. 1879E. Garrett House by Works I. 128 To put in an appearance at the Pride's next croquet match.
▪ II. croquet, v.|ˈkrəʊkeɪ, -kɪ|
Pa. tense and pple. croqueted |krəʊkeɪd|; also croqueed, -éd, -ed.
[f. prec. n.]
In the game of croquet: To drive away a ball, after hitting it with one's own, by placing the two in contact and striking one's own ball with the mallet. (trans. and absol.)
1858Field 21 Aug. 148/3 He may croquet any number of balls. 1864C. M. Yonge Trial II. 123 Ethel would just have to be croquéd all through by her partner. 1874J. D. Heath Croquet Player 35 In this, the striker's or rear ball passes, and goes a longer distance than the other or croqueted ball. |