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A list of all pages that have property "Text"Text" is a predefined property that represents text of arbitrary length and is provided by <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Special_properties">Semantic MediaWiki</a>." with value "&lt;p&gt;Dictionary-maker R. Cotgrave translates &lt;i&gt;"crosse"&lt;/i&gt; as "the crooked staff wherewith boies play at cricket."&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;"&lt;i&gt;Martinet&lt;/i&gt;" [a device for propelling large stones at castles] is defined as "the game called cat and trap."&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Cotgrave, Randle, &lt;u&gt;A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues&lt;/u&gt; [London, 1611], per David Block, &lt;u&gt;Baseball Before We Knew It&lt;/u&gt;, page 168. "&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;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, &lt;u&gt;Cricket,&lt;/u&gt; (Longmans Green, London, 1890) 4&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; edition, page 6.&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;". Since there have been only a few results, also nearby values are displayed.

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