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