croquet: [19] Old Norse krókr ‘hook’ (source of English crook) was borrowed into Old French as croc. This formed the basis of a diminutive, crochet, literally ‘little hook’, which has passed into English in various guises over the centuries. First to arrive was crotchet [14], applied to musical notes from their hooked shape. Crocket ‘curling ornamental device’ followed in the 17th century, via the Old Northern French variant croquet. Crochet itself, in the ‘knitting’ sense, arrived in the 19th century.
And in the mid 19th century croquet, apparently a dialectal variant of French crochet, was applied to the lawn game with balls and mallets newly introduced from Ireland to Britain. Old French croc was also the ancestor of encroach. => crook, crotchet, encroach, lacrosse
croquet (n.)
1858, from Northern French dialect croquet "hockey stick," from Old North French "shepherd's crook," from Old French croc (12c.), from Old Norse krokr "hook" (see crook). Game originated in Brittany, popularized in Ireland c. 1830, England c. 1850, where it was very popular until 1872.
雙語例句
1. You can engage in croquet on the south lawn.
你可以參加南邊草坪上的槌球游戲。
來自柯林斯例句
2. She cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself.
她跟自己玩槌球的時候欺騙了自己.
來自辭典例句
3. An excellent time to try out my new croquet set.
嗯,這是個試驗我最新想出來的槌球游戲的好機會.
來自電影對白
4. Perhaps we can still salvage my croquet set.
我們應該去找回那些槌球游戲的東西.
來自電影對白
5. A sport similar to the handball, called croquet, originally existed in Germany.