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- 1611.1 + (<p>Dictionary-maker R. Cotgrave tran … <p>Dictionary-maker R. Cotgrave translates <i>"crosse"</i> as "the crooked staff wherewith boies play at cricket."</p></br><p>"<i>Martinet</i>" [a device for propelling large stones at castles] is defined as "the game called cat and trap."</p></br><p>Cotgrave, Randle, <u>A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues</u> [London, 1611], per David Block, <u>Baseball Before We Knew It</u>, page 168. "</p></br><p>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, <u>Cricket,</u> (Longmans Green, London, 1890) 4<sup>th</sup> edition, page 6.<b> </b></p>r boys." A.G. Steel and R. H. Lyttelton, <u>Cricket,</u> (Longmans Green, London, 1890) 4<sup>th</sup> edition, page 6.<b> </b></p>)