croquet

• n. クロッケー、ラウンドロビン。
• 相手のボールを打ち落とすために自分のボールを打つこと。
• n. (クロケット)人の名前; (フランス語で)クロッケー.

語源はクルック、クランク、クリケットと同じで、シャフトが曲がった棒のような形をしていることからそう呼ばれる。

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.

南の芝生でハンマーボールゲームに参加できます。

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

彼女は自分とハンマーボールをしている間に自分をだました。

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

うん、これは私が最近考えたハンマーゲームを試す良い機会だ。

4.Perhaps we can still salvage my croquet set.

ハンマーゲームのものを取り戻すべきだ。

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

中欧にあるドイツではもともとハンドボールのような活動があり、ゲートボールと呼ばれている。