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cracket north. dial.|ˈkrækɪt|
Also -it.
[var. of cricket.]
1. = cricket, a low stool (called in Scotl. a crackey-stool).
1635Vestry Bks. (Surtees) 301 Maiking a cracket to kneall on. 1665Ibid. 332 For a crackett for the reading pew, 1s. 1743–4Mrs. Delany Life & Corr. (1861) II. 259 You desired me..to send you a pattern for crackets. 1834Bishoprick Garland 54 He sits on his cracket. 1889Archæol. æliana N.S. XIII. 311 A third [cockpit]..where chairs and tables, stools and crackits..were regularly fought for.
2. = cricket, an insect.
1803R. Anderson Cumberld. Ball. 69 The crackets were chirping on the hearth. |