winter cricket

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• Cricket

  ·noun A low stool. II. Cricket ·vi To play at cricket. III. Cricket ·noun A small false roof, or t...

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• cricket

  a small three-legg'd stool, also a domestic insect like a grasshopper, found in chimneys. N. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• Winter

  ·noun The period of decay, old age, death, or the like. II. Winter ·vi To keep, feed or manage, dur...

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• Fen cricket

  ·- The mole cricket. ...

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• Winter-beaten

  ·adj Beaten or harassed by the severe weather of winter. ...

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• Winter-ground

  ·vt To coved over in the season of winter, as for protection or shelter; as, to winter-ground the ro...

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• Winter-proud

  ·adj Having too rank or forward a growth for winter. ...

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• Winter-rig

  ·vt To fallow or till in winter. ...

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• Winter, William

  (b. 1836) American critic, etc. Shakespeare's England, Grey Days and Gold, Old Shrines and Ivy Brow...

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• jacky winter

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• winter cherry

  n. See balloon vine. ...

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• winter country

  in New Zealand (South Island),land so far unaffected by snow that stock is wintered on it. ...

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• winter-hedge

  a wooden frame (called also a CLOTHES-HORSE) for dry ing linen by the fire. York. ...

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• winter-fish

  This term generally alludes to cured cod and ling. ...

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• winter-quarters

  The towns or posts occupied during the winter by troops who quit the campaign for the season. Also, ...

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• winter-solstice

  See capricornus. ...

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• "Winter, John Strange"

  see Stannard, Mrs. Arthur. ...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin