subs. (Winchester College).—A kind of bastard cricket, sometimes called ‘small CROCHETTS.’ Five stumps are used and a fives ball, with a bat of plain deal about two inches broad, or a broomstick.
1866. MANSFIELD, School-Life at Winchester College, p. 122. The more noisily disposed would indulge in … playing Hicockolorum, or CROCKETTS.
TO GET CROCKETTS, verbal phr.—To fail to score at cricket; to make a duck’s egg.
