roquet

roquet (roh-KAY) - v., in croquet, to hit another player's ball with your own.


So that you can then croquet that ball: put your ball next to the hit ball, then mallet yours in a way that sends the other ball away and yours onward:


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First recorded in 1860, coined as an alteration of croquet, which was taken a couple years earlier from French, meaning hockey stick, diminutive of croc, hook, from Germanic source (so cognate of crook, as in what a shepherd traditionally used).

"Croquet" is a nice 7-letter word, if you know what I mean.

---L.