croquet equipment

5.6

Items used to play croquet, like mallets, balls, and hoops

noun
/kroʊˈkeɪ ɪˈkwɪpmənt/

: equipo de croquet

The club provided all the necessary croquet equipment for the tournament.

Examples

She carefully packed her croquet equipment after the game was finished.
Do you have any croquet equipment I can borrow?
Modern croquet equipment can be made from wood or durable plastic.
I bought new croquet equipment for the summer.
The club provided all the necessary croquet equipment for the tournament.
She carefully packed her croquet equipment after the game was finished.
I bought new croquet equipment for the summer.

Synonyms

sports equipment

vscroquet equipment

3 1.5

Things used to play a sport, like balls, racquets, or protective gear

is the specific set of items needed to play one lawn game

Surface Forms

croquet equipment singular

croquet equipments plural

Morphology

croquet + equipment

The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'croquet' (the game) with 'equipment' (objects required for an activity); the phrase simply denotes the items needed to play croquet. This noun+noun/equipment compounding is productive and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily understand it.

Etymology

Croquet equipment names the tools used to play the game, like mallets, balls, and hoops. One popular story says the word croquet comes from an old French word for a 'hook' because early hoops or mallets looked bent, so croquet equipment simply means the set of game tools.