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A ticket for transportation at a reduced rate in consideration of some special circumstance, as increase of travel; specif., a ticket for a certain number of, or for daily, trips between neighboring places at a reduced rate, such as are commonly used by those doing business in a city and living in a suburb. Commutation…

See under Rocket.

A game much played in England, and sometimes in America, with a ball, bats, and wickets, the players being arranged in two contesting parties or sides.

One who plays at cricket.

A croche, or knob, on the top of a stag's antler. The antlers and the crockets. W. Black.

Ornamented with crockets.

Ornamentation with crockets. Ruskin.

A list or calendar of business matters to be acted on in any assembly. On the docket, in hand; in the plan; under consideration; in process of execution or performance. [Colloq.]

An unfledged or young male sparrow hawk. [Obs.] Shak.

The mole cricket. [Prov. Eng.]

A barrel-shaped bottle; a flagon.

A long, shallow basket, with two handles. [Eng.] In which they gathered flowers to fill their flasket. Spenser.

The lower house of the Danish Rigsdag, or Parliament. See Legislature, below.

The light frame which holds the sheet of paper to the tympan in printing.

A line or band used to lash a furled sail securely. Sea gaskets are common lines; harbor gaskets are plaited and decorated lines or bands. Called also casket.

Same as Acton. [Obs.]

by Richard Jaquett, where felons for a long time were executed; from whence we have Jack Ketch. Lloyd's MS., British Museum. [Monmouth] then accosted John Ketch, the executioner, a wretch who had butchered many brave and noble victims, and whose name has, during a century and a half, been vulgarly given to all who hav…

embling a waistcoat lined with cork, to serve as a life preserver; -- called also cork jacket. Blue jacket. (Naut.) See under Blue. -- Steam jacket, a space filled with steam between an inner and an outer cylinder, or between a casing and a receptacle, as a kettle. -- To dust one's jacket, to give one a beating. [Col…

Wearing, or furnished with, a jacket.

The material of a jacket; as, nonconducting jacketing.