Cracket

[nq:1]I have heard the term "cracket" used to describe a small stool with a hole in the top. Please, does anyone know where this term comes from?[/nq]

First item found in a Google search for "cracket."

Bob Lieblich
Google is still your friend

[nq:2]I have heard the term "cracket" used to describe a ... top. Please, does anyone know where this term comes from?[/nq]
[nq:1] First item found in a Google search for "cracket."[/nq]
Just what I was going on about a few days ago. Should we discourage discussion of words here, especially unusual ones such as 'cracket', pointing people away, not encouraging them to respond to what we wri

[nq:1]I have heard the term "cracket" used to describe a small stool with a hole in the top. Please, does anyone know where this term comes from?[/nq]
Probably not. Certainly not Oxford.
(OED2)
cracket ("kr&kIt) Also -it. (var. of cricket.)

1. = cricket, a low stool (called in Scotl. a crackey-stool).
1635 Vestry Bks. (Surtees) 301 Maiking a cracket to kneall on.
1665

[nq:2]I have heard the term "cracket" used to describe a ... top. Please, does anyone know where this term comes from?[/nq]
[nq:1] First item found in a Google search for "cracket."[/nq]
And cribbed from the OED without attribution.

[nq:2] First item found in a Google search for "cracket."[/nq]
[nq:1]You are correct in supposing it is a seat; it is actually a small, low stool. It is also known ... women of the lower ranks".' I say whoever wrote this would do us a service if he joined our ranks.[/nq]
Since it's cribbed straight from the OED, I'd say guess whoever wrote it is cited here frequently.

[nq:2]I have heard the term "cracket" used to describe a ... top. Please, does anyone know where this term comes from?[/nq]
[nq:1] First item found in a Google search for "cracket."[/nq]
In fact there is an argument for this being the origin of cricket the game, as born out by http://tinyurl.com/5hcfn . At primary school

[nq:2] First item found in a Google search for "cracket."[/nq]
[nq:1]Just what I was going on about a few days ago. Should we discourage discussion of words here, especially unusual ... Bob's site indicated it's a word worth talking about, I say talk away, Alasdair, Bob, me, or anyone else here.[/nq]
I also suspect that like many new posters Alasdair is quite capable of using Google but is

[nq:2] First item found in a Google search for "cracket."[/nq]
[nq:1]Just what I was going on about a few days ago. Should we discourage discussion of words here, especially unusual ... word worth talking about, I say talk away, Alasdair, Bob, me, or anyone else here. From the site Bob located:[/nq]
FWIW, and I daresay that's not much, I do think that saying "this is what I found on google

[nq:2]I have heard the term "cracket" used to describe a ... top. Please, does anyone know where this term comes from?[/nq]
Dare I ask what the point of the hole in the top is?

[nq:1]I also suspect that like many new posters Alasdair is quite capable of using Google but is interested in a discussion and gettting involved in the group, rather than just reading a reference.[/nq]
Are you suggesting that Alisdair is a new poster? He was posting here long before you.

Ray