DictionaryRoot: croquet
Northern French
croquet
hockey stick
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noun
croquet
kroh-KAY/krəʊˈkeɪ/
A lawn game in which players use mallets to hit balls through hoops.
Etymology
Croquet comes from a word for a hockey stick, earlier a shepherd’s crook. A name for a stick thus became the name of a lawn game played with mallets.