cracket

British

/ ˈkrækɪt /

noun

a low stool, often one with three legs
a box for a miner to kneel on when working a low seam

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Etymology

Origin of cracket

variant of _cricket ³

Example Sentences

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Little Tommy Tacket, Sits upon his cracket; Half a yard of cloth will make him coat and jacket; Make him coat and jacket, Trowsers to the knee.

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"But," said he, as he came down, "I needna fash; for after this day little care I wha rings the bell; since it's to be consecrat to the wantonings o' prelacy, I wis the tongue were out o' its mouth and its head cracket, rather than that I should live to see't in the service of Baal and the hoor o' Babylon."

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He sell't his soul for a cracket saxpence.

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I'm thinkin' it's cracket ma spine.

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