Cricket

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Webster's Dictionary [1]

(1): (v. i.) To play at cricket.

(2): (n.) 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.

(3): (n.) A low stool.

(4): (n.) An orthopterous insect of the genus Gryllus, and allied genera. The males make chirping, musical notes by rubbing together the basal parts of the veins of the front wings.

(5): (n.) A small false roof, or the raising of a portion of a roof, so as to throw off water from behind an obstacle, such as a chimney.

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible [2]

Cricket .   Leviticus 11:22 (AV [Note: Authorized Version.] ‘beetle’). See Locust.

Holman Bible Dictionary [3]

 Leviticus 11:22Insects

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [4]

krı̄k´et ( חרגּל , ḥargōl ): This occurs in  Leviticus 11:22 (the King James Version "beetle"), and doubtless refers to some kind of locust or grasshopper. See Beetle; Locust; Insects .

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