Editing Croquet (section)

==Glossary of terms==
[[File:CroquetConverse4037.JPG|thumb|Backyard croquet being played in rough grass with inexpensive equipment, Pacific Northwest, August 2009]]
[[File:Croquet Player, 1959.jpg|thumb|Croquet player in a front yard in [[Grand Rapids, Michigan]], 1959]]
;Backward ball: The ball of a side that has scored fewer hoops (compare with 'forward ball')<ref name="Hawkins">{{cite book|title=Complete Croquet: A Guide to Skills, Tactics, and Strategy|first= James |last= Hawkins|publisher=Crowood Press|isbn=978-1-84797-168-5|year=2010}}</ref>
;Ball-in-hand: A ball that the striker can pick up to change its position, for example:
:# Any ball when it leaves the court has to be replaced on the yard-line
:# The striker's ball after making a roquet must be placed in contact with the roqueted ball
:# The striker's ball when the striker is entitled to a lift<ref name="laws">''[https://www.croquet.org.uk/?p=games/association/laws/7th]'', 7th Edition, World Croquet Federation.</ref>
;Ball in play: A ball after it has been played into the game, which is not a ball in hand or pegged out<ref name="laws" />
;Baulk: An imaginary line on which a ball is placed for its first shot in the game, or when taking a lift: The A-baulk coincides with the western half of the yard line along the south boundary; the B-baulk occupies the eastern half of the north boundary yard line.<ref name="laws" />
;Bisque, half-bisque: A bisque is a free turn in a handicap match. A half-bisque is a restricted handicap turn in which no point may be scored.<ref name="laws" />
;Break down: To end a turn by making a mistake<ref name="Hawkins"/>
;Cannon: In association croquet, a shot which results after a roqueted ball comes to rest in contact with another ball on the lawn: The laws allow for this third ball to also be moved on the resulting croquet stroke, staying in touch with the roqueted ball (on which the striker is now ball-in-hand). The croquet stroke with the three balls in contact is referred to as a "cannon".<ref name="Hutchinson">{{Cite web|last=Hutchinson|first=John|title=The Cannon in Association Croquet|website=[[YouTube]] |date=20 September 2022 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTnieJ-B7UQ}}</ref>
;Continuation stroke: Either the bonus stroke played after running a hoop in order or the second bonus stroke played after making a roquet<ref name="laws" />
;Corner cannon: In association croquet, a cannon taken from a corner of the court : Corner cannons occur a good deal more frequently than other cannons because skilled players seek them out as a way of getting a ball out of a corner and into a break. The corner is a fairly large target into which to rush and set up a corner cannon.<ref name="Kroeger">{{Cite web|last=Kroeger|first=Bob|title=Croquet - Corner Cannons|website=[[YouTube]] |date=20 July 2011 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCR1njAABhM}}</ref>
;Croquet stroke: A stroke taken after making a roquet, in which the striker's ball and the roqueted ball are placed together in contact<ref name="laws" />
;Double tap: A fault in which the mallet makes more than one audible sound when it strikes the ball<ref name="laws" />
;Double banking: The practice of playing 2 games of croquet simultaneously on the same lawn/court : This is done by using primary colours and secondary colours. When the two games impinge on each other players mark the balls to allow the other game to proceed.
;Dolly rush: A rush with a very short distance (a foot or less) between the balls; a dolly rush is easy to control and is generally considered quite desirable
;Forward ball: The ball of a player or team that has scored more hoops (compare with 'backward ball')<ref name="Hawkins"/>
;Hit in: To make a roquet, usually at distance, which starts a break
;Hoop: Metal (inverted) U-shaped gate inserted into ground<ref name="laws" /> (also called a '''wicket''' in the US, which is of the same etymology as [[wicket gate]]<ref>{{Cite web|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing|title=The American Heritage Dictionary entry: wicket|url=https://ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=wicket|access-date=2020-09-08|website=ahdictionary.com}}</ref>)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.croquetamerica.com/content.aspx?page_id=22&club_id=962311&module_id=450334|title=United States Croquet Association – Introduction|last=Association|first=United States Croquet|website=www.croquetamerica.com|language=en|access-date=2018-01-16}}</ref>
;Leave: The position of the balls after a successful break, in which a player leaves the balls placed so as to make life as difficult as possible for the opponent and/or easy for themselves on the next turn if the opponent misses<ref name="Hawkins"/>
;Lift: A turn in which the player is entitled to remove the ball from its current position and play instead from either baulk line; a lift is permitted when a ball has been placed by the opponent in a position where it is wired from all other balls, and also in advanced play when the opponent has completed a break that includes hoops 1-back or 4-back<ref name="laws" />
;Object ball: A ball which is going to be rushed
;Peg out: To cause a rover ball to strike the peg and conclude its active involvement in the game<ref name="laws" />
;Peel: To send a ball other than the striker's ball through its next hoop in order<ref name="laws" />
;Pioneer: A ball placed in a strategic position near the striker's next-but-one or next-but-two hoop, to assist in running that hoop later in the break
;Primary colours''' or '''first colours: The main croquet ball colours used are blue, red, black and yellow. One player or team plays blue and black, the other red and yellow.<ref name="laws" />
;Push: A fault when the mallet pushes the striker's ball with an extended contact, rather than making a clean strike<ref name="laws" />
;Roquet: (Second syllable rhymes with "play") : When the striker's ball hits a ball with which the player is entitled to then take a croquet shot, it is a roquet. At the start of a turn, the striker is entitled to roquet all the other three balls once. Once the striker's ball goes through its target hoop, the player is again entitled to roquet the other balls once.<ref name="laws" />
;Rover ball: A ball that has run all 12 hoops in order, and can therefore be pegged out<ref name="laws" />
;Rover hoop: The last hoop, indicated by a red top bar; the first hoop has a blue top<ref name="laws" />
;Run a hoop: To send the striker's ball through a hoop; if the hoop is the hoop in order for the striker's ball, the striker earns a bonus stroke<ref name="laws" />
;Rush: A roquet when the roqueted ball is sent to a specific position on the court, such as the next hoop for the striker's ball or close to a ball that the striker wishes to roquet next.<ref name="Hawkins"/>
;Scatter shot: A continuation stroke used to hit a ball which may not be roqueted in order to send it to a less dangerous position<ref name="Hawkins"/>
;Secondary colours: (Also known as second colours or alternate colours):<ref name="laws"/> The colours of the balls used in the second game played on the same court in double-banking are green, pink, brown and white. Green and brown versus pink and white, are played by the same player or pair.<ref name="laws" />
;Sextuple peel (SXP): To peel the partner ball through its last six hoops in the course of a single turn; very few players have achieved this feat, but it is being seen increasingly at championship level<ref name="Hawkins"/>
;Tice: A ball sent to a location that will entice an opponent to shoot at it but miss<ref name="Hawkins"/>
;Triple peel (TP): To send a partner ball through its last three hoops, and then peg out both partner ball and striker's ball, in the course of a single turn; see also [[Triple Peel]] : A variant is the '''Triple Peel on Opponent''' (TPO), where the opponent's ball, rather than the partner ball, is peeled. The significance of this manoeuvre is that in advanced play, making a break that includes the tenth hoop (called 4-back) is penalized by granting the opponent a lift (entitling him to take the next shot from either baulk line). Therefore, many breaks stop voluntarily with three hoops and the peg still to run.<ref name="Hawkins" />
;Wired: When a hoop or the peg impedes the path of a striker's ball, or the swing of the mallet, a player will often endeavour to finish a turn with the opponent's balls wired from each other.<ref name="Hawkins"/>
;Yard line: An imaginary line {{Convert|1|yd|spell = in}} from the boundary; balls which go off the boundary are generally replaced on the yard line (but if this happens on a croquet stroke, the turn ends)<ref name="laws"/>