cricket

from The Century Dictionary.

• To engage in the game of cricket; play cricket.
• noun Any saltatorial orthopterous insect of the family Gryllidæ (or Achetidæ), or of a group Achetina: sometimes extended to certain species of the related family Locustidæ.
• noun A small, low stool; a footstool.
• noun An open-air game played with bats, ball, and wickets, long peculiar to England, but now popular throughout the British empire, and somewhat less so in the United States and elsewhere.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun A low stool.
• noun 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.
• noun (Arch.) 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.
• intransitive verb To play at cricket.
• noun (Zoöl.) 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.
• noun See under Balm.
• noun a small European bird (Silvia locustella); -- called also grasshopper warbler.
• noun a small American tree frog (Acris gryllus); -- so called from its chirping.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun An insect in the order Orthoptera, especially family Gryllidae, that makes a chirping sound by rubbing its wing casings against combs on its hind legs.
• noun A wooden footstool.
• noun A signalling device used by soldiers in hostile territory to identify themselves to a friendly in low visibility conditions
• noun A relatively small area of a roof constructed to divert water from a horizontal intersection of the roof with a chimney, wall, expansion joint or other projection.
• noun US slang, in the plural Absolute silence; no communication. See crickets.
• noun sports A game played outdoors with bats and a ball between two teams of eleven, popular in England and many Commonwealth countries.
• noun chiefly UK An act that is fair and sportsmanlike, derived from the sport.
• verb rare, intransitive To play the game of cricket.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb play cricket
• noun leaping insect; male makes chirping noises by rubbing the forewings together
• noun a game played with a ball and bat by two teams of 11 players; teams take turns trying to score runs