Croquet: alternatives and connections

a mixture of gases (especially oxygen) required for breathing; the stuff that the wind consists of; "air pollution"; "a smell of chemi…

A vessel, cell, duct, or tube containing or conducting air; as the air vessels of insects, birds, plants, etc.; the air vessel of a pu…

Not open to a free current of air; wanting fresh air, or communication with the open air.

A series of arches with the columns or piers which support them, the spandrels above, and other necessary appurtenances; sometimes ope…

A game played on an oblong board, having, at one end, cups or arches into or through which balls are to be driven by a rod held in the…

To gather balls which cling to the feet, as of damp snow or clay; to gather into balls; as, the horse balls; the snow balls.

The act of voting by balls or written or printed ballots or tickets; the system of voting secretly by balls or by tickets.

A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub.

A game played with ivory balls o a cloth-covered, rectangular table, bounded by elastic cushions. The player seeks to impel his ball w…

To endeavor to raise the market price of; as, to bull railroad bonds; to bull stocks; to bull Lake Shore; to endeavor to raise prices…

The mass of stone or solid work at the end of a bridge, by which the extreme arches are sustained, or by which the end of a bridge wit…

A shot in which the ball struck with the cue comes in contact with two or more balls on the table; a hitting of two or more balls with…

A wooden case filled with balls, to be shot from a cannon.

A game, called also daughts, played on a checkerboard by two persons, each having twelve men (counters or checkers) which are moved di…

A game in which questions are asked for the purpose of enabling the questioners to discover a word or thing previously selected by two…

A kind of open stove introduced by Benjamin Franklin, the peculiar feature of which was that a current of heated air was directly supp…

A game in which two parties of players, armed with sticks curved or hooked at the end, attempt to drive any small object (as a ball or…

A quart pot; -- so called because originally bound with hoops, like a barrel. Also, a portion of the contents measured by the distance…