croquet

词源同crook, crank, cricket, 因其球杆形如弯棍而得名。

croquet

croquet: [19] Old Norse krókr ‘hook’ (source of English crook) was borrowed into Old French as croc. This formed the basis of a diminutive, crochet, literally ‘little hook’, which has passed into English in various guises over the centuries. First to arrive was crotchet [14], applied to musical notes from their hooked shape. Crocket ‘curling ornamental device’ followed in the 17th century, via the Old Northern French variant croquet. Crochet itself, in the ‘knitting’ sense, arrived in the 19th century.

And in the mid 19th century croquet, apparently a dialectal variant of French crochet, was applied to the lawn game with balls and mallets newly introduced from Ireland to Britain. Old French croc was also the ancestor of encroach.
=> crook, crotchet, encroach, lacrosse

croquet (n.)

1858, from Northern French dialect croquet "hockey stick," from Old North French "shepherd's crook," from Old French croc (12c.), from Old Norse krokr "hook" (see crook). Game originated in Brittany, popularized in Ireland c. 1830, England c. 1850, where it was very popular until 1872.

1. You can engage in croquet on the south lawn.

你可以参加南边草坪上的槌球游戏。

2. She cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself.

她跟自己玩槌球的时候欺骗了自己.

3. An excellent time to try out my new croquet set.

嗯,这是个试验我最新想出来的槌球游戏的好机会.

4. Perhaps we can still salvage my croquet set.

我们应该去找回那些槌球游戏的东西.

5. A sport similar to the handball, called croquet, originally existed in Germany.

地处中欧的德国原有类似手球的活动, 称为门球.