cricket bat

collocation in English

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cricket
noun
uk
/ˈkrɪk.ɪt/us
/ˈkrɪk.ɪt/
a sport in which two teams of eleven players try to score runs (= points) by hitting a small, hard ball with a bat, and running between two sets of small ...
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bat
noun[C]
uk
/bæt/us
/bæt/
a specially shaped piece of wood used for hitting the ball in ...
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(Definition ofcricketandbatfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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I was distressed to see that incident about thecricketbat.
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Now it will doubtless be thecricketbat, but that is a good thing because it will be harder.
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I have been involved in sport ever since the age of two when my father put acricketbatinto my hands.
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Thecricketbatwas signed by those gentlemen.
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Lyttelton was a very strong disciplinarian, and wielded the birch as well as he wielded acricketbat.
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This is not so much a question of one-club golf as of not attempting to play golf with acricketbator to play cricket with a golf club.
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Will he also agree that conifers are probably the only species which in the end are economically profitable, apart from unusual hard woods such ascricketbatwillows?
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He did stories on how to make a guitar,cricketbatand dance like a supertstar.
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At his death he was described as acricketbatmanufacturer.
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The oldest known survivingcricketbatis dated 1729.
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The body of the trug is made of five or seven thin boards ofcricketbatwillow, also hand-shaved with a drawknife.
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He begins to sleep with acricketbatbeside his bed, in fear that the robber will return.
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It is a game that is played with a bat that looks much like acricketbat.
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The object which had hurtled down was acricketbat, much battered and ominously stained.
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Initially, there was no support from governments, with the staff at the centre providing security with nothing more than acricketbat.
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Their trademark of a kangaroo and emu with acricketbatbetween them was introduced in 1886.
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Stu encounters a vault filled with money and an oldcricketbat.
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If choosing a self-tie bow tie, there are usually two shapes available: the bat wing, which is parallel-sided like acricketbat, and the thistle, also known as the butterfly.
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He was brought up by his elder brothers but ran away from several schools, and he once hit his school captain over the head with acricketbat.
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