Croquet is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.
You can make 139 anagrams from letters in croquet (ceoqrtu).
1855-60; French (dial.): hockey stick, literally, little hook; see crocket
In other words, the thing's feet must have been arched like a croquet wicket.
I can play a very good set, and beat most ladies at croquet.
We have a croquet set in the yard, and sometimes we have a tent too.
Hence the Mall and Pall-Mall, where games like croquet were played.
Her arms were no bigger than the handles of our croquet mallets.
There was croquet after lunch—a game at which I am a poor performer.
They haven't taken in the croquet hoops yet; shall we play at that?'
The dragon treats the whole affair as if it was an invitation to tea and croquet.
I am sure she, like many others, is easily your victim—at croquet.
What have golfers, and tennis-players, and makers of century runs to do with croquet?