单词 | cricket-staff |
释义 | > as lemmascricket-staff ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > equipment > [noun] > bat cricket-staff?1575 cricket bat1622 bat1706 willow1846 willow weapon1850 driver1883 ?1575Kricket-staues [see sense 1a]. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Crosse,..also, a Cricket-staffe; or, the crooked staffe wherewith boyes play at Cricket. 1894 A. B. Gomme Trad. Games I. 82 Cricket... Wedgwood (Etym. Dict.) suggests that the proper name for the bat was ‘cricket-staff’, A.-S. criec, a staff. < as lemmas |
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