What does "cricket" mean?

Additional senses

1. 2.A game much played in England, and sometimes in America, with a ball, bats, and wickets, the players being arranged in two contesting parties or sides.
2. 3.(Arch.) A small false roof, or the raising of a portion of a roof, so as to throw off water from behind an obstacle, such as a chimney.
3. 4.To play at cricket. Tennyson.