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Definition of Cricket bat
1. Noun. The club used in playing cricket. "A cricket bat has a narrow handle and a broad flat end for hitting"
Definition of Cricket bat
1. Noun. (cricket) a bat, traditionally made from willow, used to play cricket ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cricket Bat
Literary usage of Cricket bat
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"... natural size. cricket-bat extended to certain species of the related family
.... cricket-bat (krik'et-bat), M. Abat used in tlie game of cricket. ..."
2. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"TV* hardly regard this aa an obsolete word : yet it is never used пот, except in
an appropriated sense; a* cricket-bat. I'll try whether your costard or my ..."
3. Dynamics of Rotation: An Elementary Introduction to Rigid Dynamics by Arthur Mason Worthington (1892)
"A cricket bat held in the hand as hy a pivot, and struck by the ball somewhere
in the central plane of symmetry, and perpendicular to the face. (ii. ..."
4. Illustrations of mechanics by Henry Moseley (1839)
"A cricket bat. A cricket bat, when the ball is struck by it, may be considered
to be revolving round an axis near, the shoulder of the player. ..."
5. Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue by Robert Ellis, Great Britain Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, London Great exhibition of the works of industry of all nations, 1851 (1851)
"cricket bat«. Gauntlets, for keeping wicket. Tubular India-rubber gloves, leg-guards,
... Leg-guards, cricket bat«, of superior wood. Cricket balls. ..."
6. Racquets, Tennis, and Squash by Eustace Miles (1903)
"F may play with a Cricket-bat By this means, to his activity and agility he ...
To play well with a Cricket-bat implies a very accurate timing of the ball. ..."
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