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noun

Crease n. See Creese.

Crease n.

A line or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance; hence, a similar mark, however produced.

(Cricket) One of the lines serving to define the limits of the bowler and the striker.

(Lacrosse) The combination of four lines forming a rectangle inclosing either goal, or the inclosed space itself, within which no attacking player is allowed unless the ball is there; called also goal crease.

Bowling crease (Cricket), a line extending three feet four inches on each side of the central strings at right angles to the line between the wickets.

Return crease (Cricket), a short line at each end of the bowling crease and at right angles to it, extending toward the bowler.

Popping crease (Cricket),, a line drawn in front of the wicket, four feet distant from it, parallel to the bowling crease and at least as long as the latter.

Creese n. (Written also crease and kris) A dagger or short sword used by the Malays, commonly having a serpentine blade. "From a Malayan creese to a sailor's jackknife."

verb

Crease v. t. (past & past part. creased; pres. part. creasing) To make a crease or mark in, as by folding or doubling. "Creased, like dog's ears in a folio."

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"Crease" Quotes from Famous Books

... exactly the same metal as that of which your silencer case is made. It's a peculiar mixture of aluminum and vanadium steel. I never knew it used in any shop but yours, and these filings are certainly of that metal. It would seem, Tom, that these were the files used to cut a crease in the case of your silencer to weaken it so ...

— Tom Swift and his Air Scout - or, Uncle Sam's Mastery of the Sky • Victor Appleton

... was conservatively glad to see Johnny. He was a crisp-faced man, with an extremely tight-cropped gray mustache; and not a single crease in his countenance was flexible in the slightest degree. He had an admiration amounting almost to affection for Johnny—provided the promising young ...

— Five Thousand an Hour - How Johnny Gamble Won the Heiress • George Randolph Chester

... full of Shakspeare; let us go up among the hills and see where another poet lived and lies. Here is Rydal Mount, the home of Wordsworth. Two-storied, ivy-clad, hedge-girdled, dropped into a crease among the hills that look down dimly from above, as if they were hunting after it as ancient dames hunt after a dropped thimble. In these walks he used to go "booing about," as his rustic neighbor had it,—reciting his own verses. Here is his grave in Grasmere. ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 8, Issue 45, July, 1861 • Various

... or Femoral Rupture, which comes out on the upper part of thigh, just below the crease or depression between abdomen and thigh. Femoral Rupture never appears higher up— never appears in groin, and ...

— Cluthe's Advice to the Ruptured • Chas. Cluthe & Sons

... had a little crease in it, a little depression of the eyebrow, which he seemed purposely to exaggerate ...

— Middlemarch • George Eliot

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