Wiktionary
n. (context cricket English) a bat, traditionally made from willow, used to play cricket
WordNet
n. a bat used in playing cricket [syn: bat]
Wikipedia
A cricket bat is a specialised piece of equipment used by batsmen in the sport of cricket to hit the ball, typically consisting of a cane handle attached to a flat-fronted willow-wood blade. The length of the bat may be no more than 38 inches (965 mm) and the width no more than 4.25 inches (108 mm). Its use is first mentioned in 1624.
Usage examples of "cricket bat".
Our equipment was a vast array of cameras, tape recorders, tents, sleeping bags, medical supplies, mosquito coils, unidentifiable things made of canvas and nylon with metal eyelets and plastic hooks, cagoules, boots, penknives, torches and a cricket bat.
Jessop was surprised to discover that there was nothing to be seen other than a cricket bat, a pair of old pads, and a crumpled white shirt that looked as if it hadn't been worn for several weeks.
And there were nutmeg trees, as well as cedar, _poui_, and the _bois-canot_ which was light yet so springy and strong it made you a better cricket bat than the willow.
Others add that I can hit them with my cricket bat whenever I want to.
The one who had carried the cricket bat asked Savage solicitously what he would have.
There was a coffee bar on our side of the room and a pool table, and ping-pong, and, at the far end, a net had been fixed up and a line of boys were bowling at a tall, good-looking man with dark hair touched with grey, who plied his cricket bat with what I assumed to be considerable skill.
Some day he would have to tell Rubens about the West Indian fast bowler who had got life for murdering his wife, though, thankfully, not with a cricket bat.
We phoned room service to bring us up some beers and also to take the cricket bat away but they didn't want it.
The guy from room service said that _if we were really going to look for man-eating lizards maybe the cricket bat would be a handy thing to have.
He swung the cricket bat over his head like an axe, and slammed it against the floating sphere.
There was Peter in flannels, a boy with bright eyes and curly head, fighting life's battles with a cricket bat and a joke.
I put my ball down by the wicket and took hold of the mallet with a sort of cricket bat grip.
The front door's already open, and the hall is crammed with boxes and racing bikes and two oars, a cricket bat and pads, skiing equipment, oxygen tanks and a wet-suit.