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Definition of Cricketed
1. cricket [v] - See also: cricket
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cricketed
Literary usage of Cricketed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Review (1832)
"He still cricketed, drank, wrestled, and wasted his time in all manner of frolics,
until in a happy hour he married an amiable young woman, who succeeded by ..."
2. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1874)
"No ; Punch agrees with you, Most Reverend Primate : Too oft our parsons breathe
a stuffy climate, Till men who rowed and cricketed—and thought— Become, ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1861)
"Ned cricketed, Phil boated ; thus one was thrown among the wet " bobs," one among
the "dry." Ned was a careless dresser, Phil followed at humble distance, ..."
4. Poems by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson (1851)
"They boated and they cricketed ; they talked At wine, in clubs, of art, of
politics ; They lost their weeks ; they vext the souls of deans ; They rode ..."
5. The Dickens Dictionary: A Key to the Characters and Principal Incidents in by Gilbert Ashville Pierce (1900)
"He wrote poetry, and he rode, and he ran, and he cricketed, and he danced, and
he acted ; and he done it all equally beautiful. ..."
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