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French-English Dictionary Cites "Cat and Trap" and Cricket

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Text	Dictionary-maker R. Cotgrave translates "crosse" as "the crooked staff wherewith boies play at cricket." "Martinet" [a device for propelling large stones at castles] is defined as "the game called cat and trap." Cotgrave, Randle, A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues [London, 1611], per David Block, Baseball Before We Knew It, page 168. " Cricket historians Steel and Lyttelton: "Thanks to Cotgrave, then, we know that in 1611 cricket was a boy's game, played with a crooked bat. The club, bat, or staff continued to be crooked or curved at the blade till the middle of the eighteenth century or later: and till nearly 1720 cricket was mainly a game for boys." A.G. Steel and R. H. Lyttelton, Cricket, (Longmans Green, London, 1890) 4^th edition, page 6.
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