crease

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Evgeni Nabokov never had to make a save; but the flurry near the crease was a sign of good things to come for the State of Hockey.

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  1. noun A line made by pressing, folding, or wrinkling.
  2. noun Sports A rectangular area marked off in front of the goal in hockey and lacrosse.
  3. noun Sports One of the lines in cricket marking off the positions of the bowler and batter or the space between two of these lines.
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  • Evgeni Nabokov never had to make a save; but the flurry near the crease was a sign of good things to come for the State of Hockey. —  MVN
  • Kanhai, instinctively, knew that the purpose of batting is to entertain, and the crease was the stage on which he performed. —  CaribbeanCricket.com
  • When the pitch is wearing as quickly as this appears to be doing - former West Indies wicketkeeper, David Williams reckons he has never seen a Sabina pitch as scuffed as this one by day two - occupation of the crease is almost as important as scoring runs. —  Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph
  • Stubborn occupation of the crease was the main order of the day for him, even when England tried to frustrate him with seven fielders on the off-side. —  BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
  • Their old Female Genitalia 3rd jersey was hilarious, and watching Marty soil himself in the crease is always entertaining. —  Kuklas Korner
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seam ·  furrow ·  indentation ·  incision ·  blemish ·  gash ·  scratch ·  crevice ·  slash ·  pucker ·  wrinkle ·  bump

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crease:   creases ·  creased
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  1. Alteration of creaste, perhaps from Middle English creste, ridge; see crest.

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  1. First in early modern English; cf. Scots creis, curl; perhaps of Celtic origin; cf. Breton krīz, a crease, a wrinkle, krīza, crease, wrinkle, fold; Welsh crych, a wrinkle, crych, adjective, wrinkled, crychu, rumple, ripple, crease. There is prob. no connection with G. kraus, curled, crisp, Swedish krus, a curl, etc.: see crouse.
  2. from crease, n.
  3. from Middle English cresen, crescen, by apheresis from encresen, increase: see increase, and cf. cresce.
  4. from Middle English cres, *crese, by apheresis from encrese, increase: see increase, n., and cf. crease, v.
 

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