cricket chair

English

Etymology

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Noun

cricket chair (plural cricket chairs)

1. A small wooden rocking chair or armchair with turned legs and posts, having a padded seat, back cushion, and usually a cloth skirt.
   • 1892, All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal, page 52:

     One of these rooms—the "parlour," as Susie called it—had a wide, low embrasure at one end, and you mounted a couple of shallow steps to reach it; indeed, it made quite a little fairy bower, for one side was all casement, through which the roses and the wine-coloured nasturtiums thrust their faces, while the jasmine peered in with its starry eyes; and on the other Mrs. Garland had hung some diaphanous pale curtains, placing a low, wide cricket-chair deftly cushioned at one corner, a tiny bit of a table near it, and a low stool worked in wools, and much prized as being the crowning effort of her girlish days, before it.

   • 1954, May Dikeman Hoss, The Pike, page 195:

     The rockers of her cricket chair snapped rapidly against the floor boards.

   • 1956, Irving Shulman, Children of the Dark, page 81:

     Steve tipped the cricket chair forward, slid everything to the floor, and moved the chair to another place on the rug.

   • 1991, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Rachel C. Payes, The Dark Towers of Trelochen, page 319:

     I sank down into the small cricket chair beside the fire and gestured to a larger chair on the other side of the fireplace.

2. The chairperson of a cricket team.
   • 2015, Ron Kaplan, The Jewish Olympics: The History of the Maccabiah Games:

     Adrian Cole, cricket chair for U.S. Sports in Israel, was picked to lead the second U.S. cricket team, but the group disbanded after the sudden death of John Martyr, the team's heart and soul, according to 1973 team member Joe Siegman.

   • 2024, Lawrence Booth, The Shorter Wisden 2024:

     The summer also represented a baptism of fire for former captain Stephen Peters, who had replaced the long-serving Nigel Felton as cricket chair.