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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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Etymology of 'Crease'

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"Crease" Quotes from Famous Books

... yourself time to love?' he murmured, as it were with a kind malice, and every crease in his veined and yellow features was intensified by ...

— Sacred And Profane Love • E. Arnold Bennett

... right-front corner over and lay it on the left-rear corner. Pull all canvas smooth, throw guys toward square iron, and pull bottom edges even. Then take the right-front corner and return to the right, covering the right-rear corner. This folds the right side of the tent on itself, with the crease in the middle and under the ...

— Manual for Noncommissioned Officers and Privates of Infantry • War Department

... give you this again," he said, and handed her the blue length of ribbon, folded smoothly, but showing the crease where ...

— Seven Little Australians • Ethel Sybil Turner

... was still wandering about the Paradou with all the mute agony of a wounded animal. She had ceased to weep. Her face was very white and a deep crease showed upon her brow. Why did she have to suffer that deathlike agony? Of what fault had she been guilty, that the garden no longer kept the promises it had held out to her since her childhood's days? She questioned herself as ...

— Abbe Mouret's Transgression - La Faute De L'abbe Mouret • Emile Zola

... Granada, and passing through the village of Almeda, met a man on horseback like themselves and going the same way; after having traveled two or three leagues together, they halted, and the cavalier spread his cloak on the grass, so that there was no crease in the mantle; they all placed what provisions they had with them on this extended cloak, and let their horses graze. They drank and ate very leisurely, and having told their servants to bring their horses, the cavalier said to them, "Gentlemen, do not hurry, you will reach the town early"—at ...

— The Phantom World - or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. • Augustin Calmet

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